A representative didn't immediately respond to an emailed request for comment. Tor was originally developed for protecting U.S. He is the 19th man convicted as part of an ongoing investigation targeting three child porn websites on Tor. 3 to accessing images of child sexual exploitation on a locally-operated website.Īuthorities said Cottom accessed the site on what's known as the dark web through a special address entered into Tor, an anonymous online network that helps mask a user's activity.Ĭottom's personal computer contained more than 600 images of child exploitation and evidence of significant online history accessing child porn websites. Kirk Cottom, 45, of Rochester, New York, pleaded guilty in an Omaha, Nebraska courtroom on Aug. WASHINGTON (AP) - A New York man was sentenced Thursday to six years in federal prison for receiving and accessing child pornography, according to the Justice Department. Reading or replaying the story in its archived form does not constitute a republication of the story. Information in the story may be outdated or superseded by additional information. However, following revelations that some of the images may constitute child pornography, a moderator has warned that any images featuring Maroney or Lee "will be immediately removed".This archived news story is available only for your personal, non-commercial use. The hacked photographs were originally thought to have been posted on a "deep web" forum a week ago, but it was only when the images were subsequently uploaded to the 4chan anonymous image-sharing forum on Sunday that they were circulated widely.Īccording to online news organisation The Daily Dot, the Reddit community r/TheFappening has become the main hub for sharing the stolen photographs, because Reddit is one of the few mainstream websites that is not deleting links to the photos. The images so far released online are believed to represent only a fraction of a vast archive of explicit photographs that a group of hackers has been amassing for months, possibly by compromising the stars' iCloud accounts. But her lawyer has reportedly sent a letter to several pornography sites that have reposted the images, demanding that they remove them because Maroney was underage in several of them.
Maroney, an Olympic gold medallist and world champion gymnast, tweeted that the photos of her posted online this week were "fake".
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