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NEW HAMPSHIRE<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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\"DepartmentNew Hampshire man was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison for remotely hacking into the online accounts of dozens of teenaged female victims and sending them threatening online communications, according to officials.<\/span><\/p>\n

In some instances, he sent sexually explicit photos, in order to force the victims to send him sexually explicit photos of themselves, officials stated.<\/span><\/p>\n

in some instances containing sexually explicit photos, in order to force the victims to send him sexually explicit photos of themselves, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ryan J. Vallee, 23, formerly of Laconia, New Hampshire, was sentenced today by U.S. District Judge Paul J. Barbadoro of the District of New Hampshire.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vallee pleaded guilty on Aug. 25, 2016, to a 31-count superseding indictment charging him with 13 counts of making interstate threats, one count of computer hacking to steal information, eight counts of computer hacking to extort, eight counts of aggravated identity theft and one count of cyberstalking.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0On March 16, 2016, while Vallee was awaiting trial, he was re-arrested on new criminal charges and has remained in custody since then.\u00a0\u00a0The names of the victims are being withheld from the public to protect their privacy.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to admissions made in connection with his plea and evidence presented at sentencing, from 2011 through March 2016, Vallee, using various aliases that included \u201cSeth Williams\u201d and \u201cJames McRow,\u201d engaged in a computer hacking and \u201csextortion\u201d campaign designed to force dozens of teenaged victims \u2013 many of which he personally knew \u2013 to provide him with sexually explicit photographs of themselves and others.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vallee employed a variety of techniques to force his victims to cede to his \u201csextortionate\u201d demands, according to officials\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For example, according to the plea agreement, he repeatedly hacked into and took control over the victims\u2019 online accounts, including their email, Facebook and Instagram accounts.<\/span><\/p>\n

Once he had control of these accounts, Vallee locked the victims out of their own accounts and, in some cases, defaced the contents of the accounts, he admitted.<\/span><\/p>\n

In at least one instance, Vallee hacked into a victim\u2019s Amazon.com account, which stored her payment information and shipping address, then ordered items of a sexual nature and had them shipped to the victim\u2019s home.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vallee also admitted that in some instances, he obtained sexually explicit photos of the victims and their friends and distributed them to the victims, their friends and their family members.<\/span><\/p>\n

With at least one victim, Vallee created a Facebook page using an account name that was virtually identical to the victim\u2019s real Facebook account name, with one letter misspelled, he admitted.<\/span><\/p>\n

He then posted sexually explicit photos of the victim on this fake Facebook page and issued \u201cfriend requests\u201d to the victim, her friends and her family members, according to the plea agreement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Vallee admitted that he repeatedly sent threatening electronic communications to his victims, usually by using spoofing or anonymizing text message services, in which he threatened his victims that unless they gave him sexually explicit photographs of themselves, he would continue with the above-described conduct.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the admissions in the plea agreement, when most of the victims refused to comply with Vallee\u2019s demands and begged him to leave them alone, Vallee responded with threats to inflict additional harm.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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