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Former Mount Laurel Police Officer Indicted For Leaking College Women's Nude Pics: Prosecutors Former Mount Laurel Police Officer Indicted For Leaking College Women's Nude Pics: Prosecutors
Ayron Taylor Indicted A former Mount Laurel police officer was indicted after prosecutors said he hacked into the social media accounts of female college students and leaked nude pictures of them. A grand jury issued an indictment against 24-year-old Ayron Taylor of Moorestown on 96 counts, Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia Bradshaw announced on Tuesday, Feb. 22. He was charged in 2022 and investigators said he illegally accessed more than 5,000 student email accounts from Rowan College at Burlington County. Taylor was indicted on Thursday, Feb. 15. He was charged with 54 counts of elements of computer th…

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by Chris Spiker
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He’d Been Hacked, All Right: NJ Man Loses Staggering $150,000 To Computer Popup Scam He’d Been Hacked, All Right: NJ Man Loses Staggering $150,000 To Computer Popup Scam
He’d Been Hacked, All Right: NJ Man Loses Staggering $150,000 To Computer Popup Scam It might be emotionally painful for some to learn that a Bergen County man lost nearly $150,000 to a “your computer has been hacked” scam. Sadly, it’s true. The victim got a computer popup message “alerting” him to the purported hack earlier this month, Glen Rock Police Lt. Frank Riggio said. “Over the following days, he was advised to secure a large sum of money from his bank accounts to avoid further hacking,” the lieutenant said. The victim gave the con artist nearly 150 large "under the false pretense that this party was helping protect the victim from further financial hacking," Rigg…

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by Jerry DeMarco