The FBI and NCAA are teaming up to combat cyber-enabled sexual exploitation targeting college athletes as criminals break into online accounts to steal private and intimate photos. Stolen images can be posted or sold online or used for sextortion, harassment, and stalking.
Athletes can be particularly attractive targets because large social-media followings and name, image, and likeness activity increase their public exposure and give criminals more leverage when threatening to release private material. The FBI and NCAA have not disclosed how many athletes have been victimized.
How attackers get into athletes’ accounts
Attackers are using…
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