Her first instinct was to contact the other victims she knew, then “ultimately, local law enforcement was contacted, and a criminal investigation was opened,” the complaint said.
Investigating the Discord evidence, cops quickly determined that the perpetrator had access to the first victim’s Instagram “because he had maintained a close and friendly relationship” with her. Searching his phone, cops found a third-party app that licensed or otherwise purchased access to Grok, which they concluded that the perpetrator used to morph the girls’ photos.
From there, the bad actor uploaded the images to a file-sharing platform called Mega and used them as a “bartering tool in Telegram group chats with
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