In the wake of a Nitro teen's tragic suicide linked to online sextortion, Del Andy Shamblin, R-Kanawha, is advocating for ...

A West Virginia lawmaker is pushing new legislation aimed at making penalties specific to sextortion following the death of a ...

Brookings Institute studied 78 prosecuted cases of sextortion for its report. — -- The most common form of sextortion is "social media manipulation" according to a Brookings Institute Report ...

FBI officials in Cincinnati are issuing a warning over the increase in sextortion cases around the United States.The crime refers to when someone gets a sexually explicit photo and threatens to ...

Sextortion, a form of child sexual exploitation that involves threatening or blackmailing children, has been growing more common in recent years. In several cases, including a case in Wisconsin this ...

BENTON, Ark. — Local law enforcement agencies have issued a warning about a rise in child sextortion cases here in Arkansas. The Benton Police Department is one department that has been seeing an ...

Cases of sextortion -- conning teens to share explicit images online and then using the images for blackmail -- have so far this year already passed the number of incidents reported in the state in ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Research shows financial sextortion cases are skyrocketing in recent years. State Attorney Melissa Nelson tells Action News Jax she’s seen an increase in local cases. Now, her ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — On Tuesday, FBI Jacksonville, the St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office, and the Duval County Schools Police Department held a roundtable meeting to make parents aware of a rise in ...

Ransomware is also a form of blackmail, and it's become a highly profitable extortion industry. Modern "double-extortion" ...