| | By Nick Farrell in Rome @ Wednesday, March 18, 2009 3:32 PM
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| | AN Irish born hacker working for EOD Technology in Baghdad hacked into stateside teen girls computers and deleted files until they sent him naked pictures of themselves, TC Palm reports.
 After a five-year investigation, FBI agents arrested Patrick Connolly in Atlanta on one count of computer hacking. More charges are expected.
According to documents filed in the US District Court in Orlando, some of the victims sent themselves naked pictures in the hope he would stop sabotaging their computers.
So far there are seven victims in the case. Most of the time he either threatened to harm the victims directly or hacked into their computers until they did as they were told.
The court heard how Connolly embedded trojan horses into the girl's computers, which gave him remote control of the computers, and allowed him to look at photos and read files belonging to them. He would punish the girls by deleting files or threatening to blackmail with pictures he had stolen.
However be made a bit of a mistake when he hassled a 14 year old Aussie girl and rang her. She did not answer the phone but wrote down the number which was traced to a mobile phone in Saudi Arabia.
He was finally caught two months ago,when made the mistake of contacting one of the teenage girls he had harassed years earlier.
Connolly worked in Baghdad EOD Technology which is a US Department of Defence contractor. He has since 'left the company' and EOD said that it has cooperated with authorities. X
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