One Kentucky family hopes a new law tightening rules around the sharing of non-consensual intimate images online will help others avoid the tragic loss of a child to suicide.

Pauline Stuart says people she believed were friends "can't seem to handle talking to me" after her 17-year-old son's suicide ...

York County Sheriff Tony Breeden acknowledges Brandon Guffey during a Jan. 27 press conference after the indictment of a ...

A new online threat has emerged from a violent sextortion network called "764" that manipulates children in what the FBI described as "one of the most disturbing things" they're seeing.

The FBI has more than 250 investigations underway into the network of violent predators known as "764," FBI Assistant ...

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 ...

According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), reports of sextortion jumped from 34,000 cases in 2022 to more than 54,000 in 2023, resulting in nearly $65 million in financial ...

Sarcone III and Craig L. Tremaroli, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), said Monday morning. During a press conference, CBS6 learned ...

And the problem is on the rise in a big way. From October 2024 to March 2025, the FBI reported a 30% increase in sextortion-related tips submitted to its National Threat Operations Center ...

Data from the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Centre revealed over 54 thousand sextortion victims in 2024, up from 34 thousand the previous year, with nearly 65 million dollars lost to the crime.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has announced the arrest of 22 Nigerians allegedly involved in a sextortion ring blamed for the suicides of more than 20 teenagers across the United ...

The FBI is drawing attention to an upsurge in an online scam that's led some young victims to kill themselves. Under the "financially motivated sextortion schemes," criminals pose on social media ...