Porn hacker Laura Ponticorvo is in trouble

Do you remember what you were doing last year on March 17? I do. It was a Friday, I was working from home, with pretty okay weather. Do you know who else remembers? Laura. Because on that day, her life fell apart for a moment. Increased heart rate. Shame. 48 hours of tears and not being able to stop. Her nude photos suddenly appeared everywhere on the internet out of nowhere. A hacker turned out to have stolen her iCloud data. An iCloud she didn't even know she had. Intimate photos she had sent to her boyfriend in a horny mood. Innocent. Only meant for him. In hindsight, perhaps the biggest mistake of her life.

Laura was not the only one. Multiple nude photos of celebrities turned out to have been stolen. Some sick weirdo thought it would be fun to collect a diary of illegal porn images. Result? The Fappening 2.0. An atomic bomb of misery. The whole Hollywood drama of hacks, but then again. Here, in our little suddenly not so safe country. Who, who would do such a thing? More than a year after the misery, Laura finally has an answer. An Almere VVD politician has been arrested today. Mitchell van der K. I hesitated to write down his name, but somewhere I also think: if you nail others to the pillory like that, you don't deserve any better yourself. So there you go, Mitchell.

You were a piece writer, just like me. You worked for the VVD in Almere. From your study in your neat Almere family home, you cracked passwords and gained access to digital files of unsuspecting women. I don't know you, but I happen to know the people you hang out with. Thus, I know that you just became a father. All I can think is: what a shame. To have so much talent and then misuse it. Why? For a bit of money? Power? Revenge? Now you have lost everything, friend.

A cyber team from the police has arrested you and God knows what will happen now. Well, I actually do know. I hope for you that you get the time and peace in the coming years to replay everything in your head. Believe me, you will get that time. And, Mitchell, I can imagine that Laura is popping open a bottle of bubbles today. And you know what? I can't blame her for it either.