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This is what happens to you when your naked photos are hacked and published on the web

Dec 4, 2015, 17:04 IST

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Hunter Moore, the "most hated man on the internet," has been sentenced to two and a half years in prison. The reason? Moore operated the notorious revenge porn website "Is Anyone Up?".

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Users could submit intimate photos - often of former partners without their consent - and these would be listed by the photo subjects' real names, personal details, and social media accounts.

Moore, who has also been fined $2,000 (£1,323), didn't just rely on user submissions. A court has also found Moore guilty of paying another individual - Charles Evens - to hack into womens' online accounts to steal compromising photos.

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One such victim was K. Laws, who had her photos stolen by Evens. Laws' mother, Charlotte Laws, subsequently became an activist in the fight against revenge porn, and was pivotal in helping catch Moore.

K. Laws testified against Moore during his trial, describing the violation she felt as "he completely flipped my world upside down." Her full testimony has been published by Motherboard, and it makes for harrowing reading.

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"Over three years ago, Hunter Moore paid a man named Charlie Evans to hack into my private email account to steal my photos," she said. "A few months before I was hacked, I had taken the photos alone in the mirror in my bedroom. These photos had never been seen nor sent to anyone. I had absolutely no intention of letting anyone see them."

While on shift working as a waitress, she got a call from a colleague - the first indication that anything had happened. "I stepped outside and she proceeded to tell me that I had a topless photo online along with my full name, Twitter account link, and current city. As total shock was taking over me, she said she was so sorry this happened to me. I felt exposed, ashamed and broke into tears."

Within a day the photo had been texted round to everyone at work, she said, and she "lost a role in a film" because of it. "Not to mention the tens of thousands of strangers who saw, commented on or even possibly saved the photo."

From there, things went from bad to worse. People added her on Facebook and sent her sexual messages. A porn star reached out to try and talk "business." A stalker parked outside the family home for two nights.

Laws tried to reach out to Moore, to see if he would remove the photos. Instead, he "decided to publicly brag online to his 600,000 followers by lying about me and further damaging my reputation. He called me a whore, and he wrote on Twitter, 'I fucked Charlotte Laws' daughter so many times' and 'her daughter sucks the best cock.' Your honor, I've never been in the same room with Hunter Moore except in court."

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Laws' mother also received death threats, and Moore continued to be abusive towards both of them after the photos were removed. "He sent a tweet to my mom saying, 'Posting your daughter's nudes tonight. I am Internet and SEO genius.' Then he wrote again 'I'll ruin your life and your daughter's the fun way. When you and your daughter get my dick out of your mouths, you will realize how hard I troll you.' He also tried to harass me and mom online by linking our names with his YouTube video titled 'How to have sex with cripples.'"

She concluded: "There is no ounce of humanity in Hunter Moore and nor do I believe he is capable of rehabilitation. This man is full of hate. I will carry the trauma of this experience with me for the rest of my life."

You can read the entire testimony here, via Motherboard:

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