Posted on 12/19/2022 5:14:14 PM PST by BenLurkin
Two men have been charged with illegally gaining access to Ring home security cameras in a series of swatting schemes to live stream the police response to the bogus emergencies, federal prosecutors said Monday.
The pair allegedly gained access to home security cameras throughout the country from Nov. 7 - 13 in 2020. They obtained access to the Ring devices by hacking the Yahoo! email accounts belonging to victims, authorities said.
After aging access to the Ring cameras, Nelson and McCarty allegedly made false emergency reports to local law enforcement agencies where the victims live in an effort to elicit a police response to their homes. Using the security camera information, they then live-streamed the audio and video from the devices on social media during the police response, authorities said.
They also taunted the victims through the Ring devices.
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I didn’t know access could age. 😀🤗🤪😁😆😅
“They also taunted the victims through the Ring devices.” Losers. Glad they were caught after causing tons of stress to innocent people.
Should be the same as attempted murder by proxy, mandatory sentence. They didn’t care if someone was killed.
I would like to know how they chose their victims? Who were the perps working for?
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