Miss Teen USA Hacked; FBI Investigating; One in a String of Sextortion Cases

Miss Teen USA hacked by someone trying to extort nude pictures from the new Miss Teen USA. They hacked into the newly crowned Miss Teen USA’s webcam in her own bedroom in Southern California. The FBI is investigating. The feds say Miss Teen USA is one of over a dozen alleged victims in the hacking case.

Miss Teen USA, Cassidy Wolf, 19, told NBC's Today show website that a few months ago she got an anonymous email from someone claiming to have stolen images from the camera on Miss Teen USA’s home computer. The FBI said the Miss Teen USA hacker threatned to make the images public. Wolf, who graduated Great Oak High School in Temecula, Calif., was crowned Miss Teen USA on Saturday. Wolf previously held the Miss California Teen USA title before she won the Miss Teen USA pageant over the weekend at the Atlantis Hotel in the Bahamas.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed that they are probing the alleged Miss Teen USA hacker "sextortion" case. An FBI spokeswoman, Laura Eimiller, said the investigation is several months old. She did not give details. At this time the press does not know if a suspect has been identified.

The Miss Teen USA hacker incident is the most recent case in a string of "sextortion" cases. Hackers use email accounts, social media and hardware on people’s personal computers to get images or information from the user.

Last month, Karen “Gary” Kazayan, from Glendale, Calif., pled guilty for targeting 350 women. He hacked into Facebook, Skype and email accounts and changed passwords, searched emails and looked for revealing images, passwords and information on their friends.

A Glendale man, Karen “Gary” Kazaryan, pleaded guilty last month in a “sextortion” case in which he targeted 350 women and coerced them into showing him pictures of them nude. He then posed online as the women and got their friends to send him revealing pictures.

Prosecutors alleged Kazaryan hacked into the Facebook, Skype and email accounts of victims and changed their passwords, locking them out of their own online accounts. He then searched emails and other files for naked or semi-naked pictures of the women, as well as other information, such as passwords and the names of their friends. A Florida man hacked into email account of celebrities like Mila Kunis, Christina Aguilera and Scarlett Johansson and put out photos. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison.