The case is an example for what authorities have come to call “sextortion,” instances in which perpetrators ... which owns Facebook and Instagram, and Snap Inc., which owns Snapchat. That suit remains ...

Other employees replied to the email, with one citing a case in which a ... At one point, a fed-up Snap employee vented that the app was “over-run by this sextortion s— right now.” ...

Investigators say they believe he used Snapchat to target 17 other teenagers ... Deputies described it as a sextortion case. “Sextortion is a term used to describe the act of pressuring another ...

Financial sextortion cases targeting teenagers have more than doubled in the past year, with some cases turning fatal as ...

Snapchat is working to make it harder for ... often with profiles that appear to belong to friendly fellow teenagers. In some cases, sextortion has resulted in suicides. Meta in April also ...