Hunter Moore
| Hunter Moore | |
|---|---|
| Born |
March 9, 1986 Woodland, California, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur, internet personality |
| Known for | Is Anyone Up? |
Hunter Moore (born March 9, 1986) is an American Internet personality and criminal from Sacramento, California. He started and managed the now defunct "revenge porn" website Is Anyone Up? until its closing in April 2012. In February 2015, Moore pleaded guilty to two felonies, aggravated identity theft and aiding and abetting in the unauthorized access of a computer. In December 2015, Moore was sentenced to two years and six months in prison.
Moore started the website in 2010. It featured revealing photos and videos of real men and women, linked to their social networking profiles on Facebook or Twitter. Many of the subjects were outraged by the publicity, claiming that the explicit photos had been hacked from their personal computers or shared with former boyfriends or girlfriends, and that the photos had been posted as form of revenge. Because of this, the site's content became known as "revenge porn", but in an investigation by Charlotte Laws, a substantial portion of victims contacted stated that the pictures were outright stolen (40% had their computer or phone hacked only days before their pictures appeared on Moore's website) and another 12% stated that the pictures were fabricated, with their faces photoshopped onto or posted next to shots of nude bodies that were not theirs. The site attracted a great deal of attention, some of it salacious, much of it condemnatory.
Moore claimed that the website attracted 30 million page views monthly as well as yielding $10,000 a month in ad revenue.
Moore eventually faced numerous lawsuits, an FBI investigation and he was stabbed in the shoulder with a pen by a woman who had been featured on the site.
On April 19, 2012, Moore sold the website to an antibullying group. He posted an open letter explaining his decision.
In 2012, Moore and a colleague hacker named Charles Evens (who went under the alias of "Gary Jones") were suspected of hacking-related crimes.The Wire stated that "on multiple occasions, [Moore] paid Evens to break into the email accounts of victims and steal nude photos to post on the website isanyoneup.com." When it became apparent to Moore that news about his FBI investigation was beginning to surface to the public, Moore responded with "I will literally fucking buy a first-class fucking plane ticket right now, eat an amazing meal, buy a gun in New York, and fucking kill whoever [talked about my FBI investigation]. I'm that pissed over it. I'm actually mad right now."
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