Snapchat is working to make it harder for ... often with profiles that appear to belong to friendly fellow teenagers. In some cases, sextortion has resulted in suicides. Meta in April also ...

Financial sextortion cases targeting teenagers have more than doubled in the past year, with some cases turning fatal as ...

Snapchat failed to adequately warn its users about the extent of rampant “sextortion schemes” targeting ... with one citing a case in which a particular user’s account had “75 different ...

Investigators say they believe he used Snapchat to target 17 other teenagers ... Deputies described it as a sextortion case. “Sextortion is a term used to describe the act of pressuring another ...

Ms Govender added that Snapchat is one platform where many sextortion cases are spotted. Sexual extortion “has a devastating impact,” she said. “Children feel that there’s no one they can ...

The FBI has seen a huge increase in cases and so far the agency's Houston field office has received 80 sextortion reports ... to being proactive, like Snapchat. The application is tightening ...