Former U.S. official pleads guilty to ‘sextortion’ hacking scheme

By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A former U.S. official pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges he orchestrated an international cyber hacking operation to stalk hundreds of young women and threaten them if they did not share sexually explicit material, the Justice Department said. Michael Ford, 36, of Atlanta, Georgia, admitted to using aliases from January 2013 to May 2015 to engage in “sextortion” with his victims, many of them students at U.S. colleges, while employed by the U.S