So the moral of this tale is...
Switch off your computer (or at least disconnect / cover the camera) before engaging in anything you wouldn't want to share with the world.
A California computer consultant has pleaded not guilty to federal charges he engaged in an insidious “sextortion” scheme in which he hacked into scores of computers and used the personal information he found to extort sexually explicit videos from female victims, many of whom were juveniles. Luis Mijangos of Santa Ana, …
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@ JohnG, just because they are bringing extortion chargers, it doesn't mean they can't try him for anything else, nor do we have a list of charges but rather only that he pleads not guilty to a "plot", a statement so vague as to tell us nothing more than that he may deny some extent of wrongdoing.