Law EnforcementThursday 8 October 2026via U.S. Department of Justice

FBI and French Police Seize NudeLeaksTeens Sites Selling Hacked Intimate Images of 17,000 Women and Girls

Guardii Analysis

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia, in partnership with the FBI Washington Field Office and the Cybercrime Division of France's Parquet de Paris, announced the seizure of two websites that sold hacked and stolen sexually explicit images and videos of more than 17,000 young women and girls. The coordinated law enforcement action targeted both the dissemination of child sexual abuse material and the non-consensual publication of intimate images, with authorities arresting the suspected administrator in northern France.

The real-time anti-CSAM detection module developed by Guardii, a Meta Business Partner and Startmate-backed AI online-safety platform, operates at the point where such material first moves through direct messaging channels, blocking distribution before images reach commercial re-distribution networks. By identifying patterns of coercion, non-consensual image sharing and extortion within conversations across Instagram, Snapchat, Discord, Roblox and other platforms, Guardii surfaces the threat to the targeted individual and the appropriate authority while the hostile contact is still forming, intercepting both the initial abuse and the secondary commercial exploitation that this operation dismantled after the harm had already spread to thousands of victims.

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