Four identified in revenge porn file-sharing service
Police have identified four people who may be linked to an online file-sharing service containing about 1,500 sexually explicit photos and videos of Greek women.
The four individuals, who reside in Athens, appeared before a prosecutor to explain their role, but have not been charged yet, according to police sources.
Authorities opened an investigation after a series of complaints were filed to the police’s cybercrime division at the end of 2021. The complaints stated that a certain hyperlink led to a file-sharing site with 141 files which corresponded to an equal number of women.
Those folders were allegedly named after the profile name each victim used on social media accounts such as Instagram. Some of the names corresponded to nicknames, but others were real names, with some of the women living in the region of Achaia in southern Greece.
Police forwarded the case to its Patra division to locate other possible victims and contacted MEGA, a cloud storage company based in New Zealand where the illicit files had been published, which traced the uploads back to the four suspects in Athens.
Kathimerini knows of the case of a 25-year-old woman from Patra who discovered a personal video uploaded in the file storage service, months after breaking up with her partner.
