State Dept. cyberstalker gets almost 5 years for sextortion campaign

Federal Times: Former State Department employee Michael Ford was sentenced to almost five years in prison for orchestrating a widespread cyberstalking and “sextortion” campaign while working out of the U.S. embassy in London.

While stationed at the London embassy, Ford, 36, used several pseudonyms while posing as an employee of an email service provider to reach out to hundreds of women and threaten to shut down their accounts unless they sent him their passwords.

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