The Most Hated Man on the Internet Hunter Moore is the subject of a Netflix docu-series of the same name. The three-part show has taken the platform by storm with viewers compelled to make it one of the top shows on the streaming service last week.
The focus of the series, Hunter Moore, is now 36 and while he declined to be interviewed for it, the documentary follows the mother of one of his victim's as she makes it her mission to take him and the site down.
In an audio clip heard in the docu-series, the self-dubbed "King of Revenge Porn" reveals the sick reason he launched twisted site IsAnyoneUp which posted nude photos of young women alongside their social media account details.
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"It all started with me hating some dumb b***h who broke my heart," he laughs. Seven years on from being jailed for his role in hacking young womens' accounts to steal their intimate photos for the site, Moore is now out of prison and has actually resurfaced on social media despite a ban.
Speaking on clips used in the documentary from previous interview given by Moore, the sick site owner explained how IsAnyoneUp.com worked.
"Me and my friends would just post a bunch of girls on IsAnyoneUp, and we just got a bunch of traffic one day. And I was like, 'Yo, I can make money off of t*****s and f**king people over.'"
At 26 Hunter launched the site and engaged in an email-hacking scheme and mass photo piracy. From 2010 to 2012, he went on a life-destroying rampage, relishing in the distress of his victims, calling the site a place "where revengeful exes come for peace of mind."
To make matters worse, Hunter would often post a picture of the victim's social media platforms, exposing them further.
As sick as the site was, IsAnyoneUp was successful and was making Hunter "thousands a month." His reign of terror saw a cult following amass, as he manipulated his "children" to provide even more harrowing content. They labelled themselves 'The Family.'
However, when Charlotte Laws' daughter Kayla had her photos stolen by Hunter and exposed on the site, Charlotte was out for her own revenge.
During her three-year campaign to bring Hunter to justice, Laws was faced with threats of rape and murder at the hands of his followers, dubbed "The Family" similar to the sixties cult led by Charles Manson.
Speaking to The Sun, Charlotte said: "Moore gloated that he was 'pure evil' and it was all about being, in his own words, a 'professional life-ruiner.'"
"A lot of people on the internet thought he was cool, that what he was doing was innovative and creative," she said.
Laws was forced to take matters into her own hands as police reportedly refused to help. As her campaign gained momentum and with the help of her hesitant-at-first husband, Charles, Hunter was taken to court and Kayla's photos were taken down after 30 minutes.
But Charlotte wasn't prepared to stop fighting for the other victims of the site.
After receiving evidence from Charlotte, the FBI began investigating hacking claims. Anti-cyberbullying campaigner James McGibney found nudes belonging to underage girls on the site.
Seemingly admitting defeat, Hunter sold the site to James for around £12,000, who shut it down and redirected users to an apology on his Bullyville site. The site his now his personal website.
However, as the FBI investigation appeared to have slowed, Hunter started on the second version of his site, claiming it would be "the scariest thing on the internet."
Threats began coming through to Charlotte's landline and eventually underground hacker, Anonymous, stood in to protect her.
They hacked Hunter's bank account, transferring all of his money to a women's shelter, sent hundreds of sex-toys to his house and declared him dead in the state of California.
They also wiped the content from his storage so he couldn't go through with his sick plans.
The FBI found hacker Charlie Evens who had been paid to hack into women's accounts and steal photos.
Coincidently, Hunter was arrested in December 2015 and jailed for 30 months for hacking and copyright theft, until he was released in 2017.
Where is Hunter Moore now?
Moore is now five years out of prison and while the judge at his sentencing banned him from social media, he allegedly re-emerged on Twitter in 2021 before the account he was apparently operated was suspended.
According to Good To Know , Moore mostly posted photographs from the gym and of his dog during his brief return to the platform he once used to communicate with his followers.
He allegedly tweeted in 2021, "You know my name not my story. You've heard what I've done, Not what I've been through."
In 2022, he followed with another tweet, "Look guys, I did my time behind bars. Living my life peacefully now, it’s been a decade about what happened. Some of you loves me, most of you hates me, if you want me to apologise well I wouldn’t. I don’t owe anyone anything."
The account has now been disabled and he has not surfaced on other platforms.
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