The FBI and NCAA on Monday announced a collaborative effort to raise awareness and seek prevention of a troubling trend—the targeting of current and former college athletes in online sexual exploitation and sextortion threats.
Sources familiar with the undertaking say that a large number of NCAA athletes—male and female—have been exploited in recent years via hacking of their personal information to find and sell compromising photographs. They also have been victimized by the use of artificial intelligence technology to doctor images of athletes to create sexual content. In many cases, exploited athletes have been blackmailed to keep the images offline.
