“Having conversations with your teen about issues like sextortion can help them recognise the behaviours that might lead to ...

Sextortion is defined as a crime involving children and teens being threatened or coerced into sending explicit images online ...

A new Kentucky law regarding extortion creates stiffer penalties for offenders and requires schools to notify students about ...

Scammers are in on the sextortion trend. Our expert analysis on this trend found that the likelihood of being targeted by ...

The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency has sounded the alarm over the growing threat of sextortion gangs from Nigeria and ...

Digital Forensics Corporation is known for trying to help sextortion victims. But a USA TODAY investigation found complaints ...

Nearly 30 years after it was created, and after 15 years of political wrangling about it, it's beginning to look a law that ...

Criminals are trying to scam and take advantage of people online in any way they can. Sextortion is a form of child sexual exploitation in which cyber criminals deceive victims into thinking they are ...

Adams sponsored Senate Bill 73. It makes sextortion in Kentucky a felony and if the victim takes their life, it can be charged as a homicide. The measure was one of the only pieces of legislation to ...

We can’t undo the damage these crimes cause, but we can make sure victims have support and hold offenders fully accountable,” Sen. Julie Raque Adams said.

What these warnings look like and who sees them is still a work in progress. But as social media has evolved over the years, ...