A former Yahoo engineer has confessed to breaking into as many as 6,000 email accounts belonging to Yahoo users.
- Once he had access to an email inbox, he scoured other online accounts belonging to his victims — who were primarily young women — for private photos and videos
- The photos and videos were gathered from other sites like Facebook, Gmail, iCloud, and Dropbox. Ruiz stored copies on a home computer
- He attempted to cover his tracks by destroying the computer and hard drive on which the stolen files had been stored
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