The defendant, Kevin Bollaert, owned and operated ugotposted.com, a now-defunct website that published “revenge porn”—photographs of naked people, usually women, that were submitted by the subjects’ former paramours without the subjects’ permission.
Prosecutors said that—by operating another now-defunct website, changemyreputation.com—Bollaert earned tens of thousands of dollars by charging victims up to $350 to have their images removed from ugotposted.com. His conviction for identity theft and extortion is the first in the United States for a revenge porn website operator.