Security News > 2024 > July > Privacy expert put away for 9 years after 'grotesque' cyberstalking campaign

Garg's former roommate, identified as "Victim 1" in court documents, received thousands of threatening emails, phone calls, texts, and social media messages in which Garg threatened to murder, torture, and rape her.

Garg then targeted that victim's uncle - the attorney who represented her in obtaining the protection order - plus her boyfriend, a Seattle police detective who investigated the threats, and the deputy prosecuting attorney working on Garg's stalking case.

Garg then started calling the roommate by a nickname Spicy, and sent her texts, emails, and online messages of a sexual nature, some referencing details from her diary.

According to prosecutors, Garg used his computer skills to try to hide his identity as he was sending the threats and making posts.

On November 1, 2020, Garg was arrested and charged with one count of felony cyberstalking.

They continued: "With an apparently insatiable desire to even the score, Garg took a simple rent dispute between roommates, and escalated it into a massive cyberstalking campaign against an ever-growing number of victims, making grotesque and violent threats that are almost impossible to fathom." .

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