Snapchat hacker gets prison for trading intimate images online

Source: TribLive

If Michael Yackovich had committed his crimes in person, one of his victims wrote, he would have been considered a sexual predator for being a voyeur. But because Yackovich pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit online wire fraud and aggravated identity theft — and not sexual acts — he will not be labeled as a sex offender. Yackovich, 30, of West Newton, Pa., pleaded guilty in March in federal court to hacking into hundreds of individual Snapchat accounts, accessing intimate videos and images stored there and then trading them online. On Jun. 22, he was ordered, as part of a plea agreement, to serve four years in federal prison, three years supervised release and pay more than $38,000 in restitution to four victims. Full Story