This dependence is not unique to Snapchat. Ms Beauchere acknowledged to Sky News that the company relies 'so heavily on reporting from our community'. Snapchat does have the ability to keep these messages, but it doesn't do so unless it receives a user report flagging the communication as warranting an investigation. In all of these cases potential evidence was not sought from Snapchat because of one of the platform's key features - disappearing messages - which meant the Snaps or Chats featuring the grooming or threats were not recoverable by the company. Once he had control of the account, Black shared and sold nude photos and videos of the victim that he was able to access from Snapchat, the news release said.īlack also pretended to be the victim and requested her Snapchat friends send money to CashApp and other online money accounts to cover the costs of a fake emergency, the news release said.There are numerous extreme examples of illegal content causing harm on Snapchat too, including the grooming of Semina Halliwell, a 12-year-old girl who took her own life, the intimidation of rape and sex trafficking victims in Hull, and the case of Gemma Watts, a 21-year-old woman who posed as a teenage boy on Snapchat and Instagram to meet and sexually assault young girls. Official said Black, of High Point, hacked into the Snapchat account of a female soldier stationed at Fort Bragg, and changed the password to lock the victim out of her account.

The man involved, Patrick Marquez Black, was sentenced Monday to 13 months in prison and three years on supervised release, according to a news release from the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of North Carolina.īlack, 30, already pleaded guilty to two counts of computer fraud and abuse and one count of wire fraud for the crimes that took place for at least three years. (WNCN) - A North Carolina man is headed to prison after a Fort Bragg female soldier had her Snapchat account hacked - her nude photos were stolen and sold for money.