U.S. Department
of Justice
United States v. Kyle Svara
Docket Number: 25-cr-10472-BEM
Case Description
Kyle Svara, 26, of Oswego, Illinois, was charged with aggravated identity theft, wire fraud, computer fraud, conspiracy to commit computer fraud, and false statements related to child pornography.
According to the charging documents, from at least May 2020 to February 2021, Svara used social engineering and other resources to collect his targets’ emails, phone numbers and/or Snapchat usernames. He then used those means of identification to access his targets’ Snapchat accounts, which prompted Snap Inc. to send account security codes to those women. Using anonymized phone numbers, Svara posed as a representative of Snap Inc. and sent more than 4,500 text messages to hundreds of women, requesting those Snapchat access codes. When approximately 570 women provided those codes, Svara accessed the Snapchat accounts of at least 59 women without permission and downloaded their nude or semi-nude images. Once Svara had the stolen images, he sold or traded on them on internet forums or in transactions with others who had hired him to hack the Snapchat accounts.
Case Status
- 1/7/26 – The defendant will make an initial appearance in federal court in Boston on February 4 at 2:15pm.
Documents
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