An illegal alien from Mexico has been sentenced to six years in prison for hacking into dozens of computers, stealing personal information and demanding naked images from female victims in exchange for not releasing the stolen information

Luis Mijangos, 32, an illegal immigrant from Mexico who was living in Santa Ana, California, was engaged in cyber-terrorism and sexual extortion, federal prosecutors said. He pleaded guilty to charges of computer hacking and wiretapping in March 2011. He was sentenced during a court hearing in which two of his victims spoke, and one compared her experience to being the victim of domestic violence. Authorities said that he hacked into more than 100 computers by tricking people to download software that allowed him to take control of their computers. He listened to victims through the computers' microphones, read their emails and watched them through their webcams. He also obtained explicit pictures of many of them. He threatened the victims by saying that he would post the pictures on the Internet if the victim did not send him more explicit videos. When one victim shared Mijangos sexual extortionate threats with a friend, Mijangos responded by posting nude pictures of the victim on her MySpace page. Forty-four of the victims were juveniles.