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Germany indicts man who hacked webcams to film children

Nov 16, 2010, 14:53 GMT

Aachen, Germany - Germany has indicted a 44-year-old man who hacked webcams to obtain 3 million images of children undressing in their bedrooms, prosecutors in the city of Aachen said Tuesday. Posing as their friends, he sent the children messages with attachments that were disguised as photographs. In fact, the attached files installed trojan programs that gave him control of personal computers in the children's rooms. Whenever the computers were operating and linked to the internet, he was able to switch on the built-in cameras without the children noticing and send images to himself between autumn 2009 and April 2010. Prosecutors did not identify the man, but said he lived in the town of Aldenhoven near the Dutch border.

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