Hacker Blackmails Hacked for Porn? Buddy, the Internet is Full of That Shite….

And here we have a story of a budding hacker-entrepreneur that extorted amateur porn from his victims:

Luis Mijangos, 31, was charged with extortion after he allegedly infected more than 100 computers with a virus disguised as a popular song download, which allowed him to take over the personal computers…look[ed] for sexually explicit photos that he then used to blackmail his victims into handing over homemade sex tapes. [news.com.au]

Idiotic.  I mean, what the pro’s provide–and essentially for free–is not enough for this guy?  I’ve seen BDSM-shoe-fetishists that are more normal than this guy.

On the data security front, there’s not much that data security products could have done for you.  Hopefully antivirus software like Symantec would have picked up on the hacker’s malware, but probably not.  Encryption software like file encryption would have perhaps helped, but the keylogger the hacker used would have easily bypassed it by collecting the password.

The only solution is to not be like Paris Hilton in the first half of the 2000′s.  Or, maybe the solution is to be like Paris Hilton and milk the exposure.