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UK: Years in jail for Cambridgeshire computer hacker who blackmailed victims

Posted on July 8, 2021 by Dissent

itv reports:

A computer hacker from Linton in Cambridgeshire has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison after a number of blackmail and computer offences.

Police described 20-year-old Alexander Marsh as ‘manipulative’ after he was caught harvesting personal information, including intimate images from people in Suffolk.

Marsh first came to the attention of police after a young woman reported someone had accessed her snapchat account, changed the password and emailed her demanding money.

Read more on itv.


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