Federal prosecutors have charged two men with allegedly taking part in a spree of swatting attacks against over a dozen owners of compromised Amazon Ring home security cameras.
that federal prosecutors have charged two individuals for their alleged involvement in a series of swatting attacks targeting the owners of compromised Ring home security cameras. The suspects are accused of using their access to these cameras to livestream the police response on social media. The attacks affected more than a dozen individuals.
Kya Christian Nelson, a 21-year-old from Racine, Wisconsin, and James Thomas Andrew McCarty, a 20-year-old from Charlotte, North Carolina, are accused of accessing 12 Ring cameras by hacking into the Yahoo Mail accounts of their respective owners, according to an indictment filed on Friday in the Central District of California.
The indictment states that the men made hoax emergency calls to local police departments, with the intention of inciting an armed response, during a single week starting on November 7, 2020. This type of crime is known as swatting. Swatting attacks have
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