A pedophile computer expert spied on hundreds of his neighbors by hacking into their Wi-Fi and taking control of their webcams, Spanish police said.
The 34-year-old is accused of recording thousands of hours’ worth of intimate material — which included numerous sexual encounters of his unsuspecting victims.
He then posted some of the footage online.
Police say he cracked modem passwords to access PCs. He then installed a Trojan virus — letting him watch via the webcam exactly what the laptop owner was doing.
He allegedly spied on his community as they used their computers in their bathrooms, bedrooms and kitchens.
He also copied files stored on their hard drives, ran their programs without their permission and eavesdropped on their conversations over Skype or social networks, police say.
All the time, they had no idea they were being watched.
National Police officers on Thursday raided his home in the northeast city of Zaragoza where they also found 500 child porn images on his hard drive.
A police spokesman told ABC the man, who has not been named — but is described as having “very high technical ability but low social relation skills” — used a “very sophisticated” system.
