A 27-year-old Illinois man is pleading guilty to trying to hack into hundreds of Snapchat accounts, including those of Colby College students, for nude photos.
Prosecutors say Kyle Svara then kept, sold, or traded the nude photos on the internet.
They say Svara used social engineering and other resources to access the Snapchat accounts of at least 59 women without permission and downloaded their nude images.
Prosecutors say that once he had the stolen images, Svara sold or traded them on internet forums or in transactions with others who had hired him to hack the Snapchat accounts.
Svara pleaded guilty this week to identity theft along with several fraud charges. He also pleaded guilty to lying about child pornography after having been found to have collected, distributed, and solicited child sexual abuse material.
He will be sentenced in May.
