Sextortion can happen on any site, app, messaging platform, or game where people meet and communicate.

WDBJ7 investigates the growing online financially motivated extortion scam known as 'Sextortion' ...

A dad was left feeling “sick and angry” after making a horrifying discovery on his son’s phone — as it points to a growing ...

Elijah Heacock was a vibrant teen who made people smile. He "wasn't depressed, he wasn't sad, he wasn't angry," father John Burnett told CBS Saturday Morning. But when Elijah received a threatening ...

Warning comes Tuesday on Safer Internet Day 2026.

MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University Police have issued a Community Notice following reports of online fraud and harassment schemes aimed at students. University Police Chief Sherry St. Clair ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sextortion, a form of child sexual exploitation that involves threatening or blackmailing children, has been growing more common ...

“Anxiety, depression, self-harm” — and total dependency: Those are the “serious emotional harms” a family claims affected their daughter, identified only as KGM, in a bombshell lawsuit filed in 2023 ...

This transcript was prepared by a transcription service. This version may not be in its final form and may be updated. Victoria Craig: Welcome to Tech News Briefing. It's Wednesday, June 11th. I'm ...

In his obituary, Bird described her son as “so funny and kind and had such a big heart. He was the kid who would annoy you on purpose and then make you laugh when you were trying not to. He always ...

KRONENWETTER, Wis. — A Kronenwetter family’s bittersweet battle for stronger penalties against sextortion perpetrators reached a major milestone Tuesday as Bradyn’s Law headed to Gov. Tony Evers’ desk ...

MARSHFIELD, Wis. (WSAW/Gray News) - A Wisconsin high school baseball team honored their 15-year-old teammate whose family says he took his own life after becoming a victim of sextortion. The first ...