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(Scroll down for video) A man is behind bars after forcing hundreds of women to undress, according to court proceedings in California.
The Glendale man, who was described by prosecutors as a "sexual cyber terrorist" was sentenced on Monday, to 60 months in federal prison for hacking hundreds of Facebook accounts and using extortion to coerce 350 women to show him their bodies naked.
Karen "Gary" Kazaryan, 27, pleaded guilty to criminal charges of hacking and aggravated identity theft.
Kazaryan was accused of hacking into hundreds of email, Facebook and Skype accounts, using their usernames and passwords or password reset questions, according to a press release from the Prosecutor's Office of the United States.
Once gaining access to his victims’ accounts, he searched for nude photos, passwords and contact information of their friends.
Kazaryan then extorted victims to provide additional photos and videos. If they refused, he published the original photos on the Internet. In other cases, Kazaryan poses as a young woman and asked his friends to provide nude photos, prosecutors said.
"His victims were devastated and felt as if they had been raped," prosecutors told a judge. "They remain deeply traumatized by his criminal conduct," the court heard.