The Most Hated Man on the Internet: Hunter Moore

In 2010, Hunter Moore, a 24 year old California man, launched the website "Is Anyone Up?". The site allowed users to publicly post sexual photos and other personal information about people, including contact information and more.

Soon Moore himself hired professional hacker Charles Evens to break into email accounts to post private photos illegally obtained there. Moore soon called himself the king of revenge porn, and IsAnyone up became the go-to site for spurned lovers to humiliate their exes.

At launch, Moore stated the intention for the site had been to post about nightlife. However, soon Moore and his friends began posting sexually explicit photos of women they had been intimate with and linking the photos to their social network profiles.

Requests to have anything removed were denied. Moore compared himself to Charles Manson, called himself a "professional life ruiner" and throughout the site's 16 months online he claimed legal protection based on laws used by Facebook.

Despite the outrage by the victims, Moore kept the site up and claimed to receive $8,000-$13,000 per month in ad revenue and had more than 30 million page views.

Moore received constant death threats due to his actions. One woman whose photos appeared on his site stabbed him in the shoulder with a pen. Moore was so afraid for his safety, he lived with his grandmother in her home instead of his own.

In 2012, Moore sold his site to an anti-bullying group, bullyville.com for $12,000. The new owners removed all the sexual material, and all links from IsAnyoneUp were redirected to bullyville.com.

Charlotte Laws, the mother of one of the victims spent 2 years compiling evidence from dozens of victims and gave it to the FBI. He was then arrested and indicted in 2014. He was charged with conspiracy, unauthorized access to a protected computer and aggravated ID theft.

In 2015, Moore pled guilty. He was sentenced to 2 years in state prison, plus 2.5 years in federal prison. He was also charged a $2,000 fine and 3-year period of supervised probation plus $147.50 restitution, and was ordered to delete all data on his seized computers.

In 2017, Moore was released from prison and became the subject of the 2022 Netflix documentary "The Most Hated Man on the Internet". Moore himself released a tell all book in 2017 titled Is Anyone Up?! The Story of Revenge Porn.