where is hunter moore now?
Joining the successes of documentaries I Just Killed My Dad telling the story of Anthony Templet and mother turned murderer Lori Vallow Daybell in Sins of our Mother, comes a new Netflix true crime caper for viewers to sink their teeth into. The Most Hated Man on the Internet is a three part series which details Hunter Moore's crimes of setting up a revenge porn website - telling the story of mother Charlotte Laws who battles against him when naked pictures of her daughter are posted online without her permission.
Those that have already tuned in are full of questions - with the biggest one being where is Hunter Moore now? And did he go to prison for his crimes? We share everything there is to know.
Hunter Moore keeps a low profile nowadays following his release from prison in 2017. Hunter is still banned from Facebook, but is active on Twitter on the handle @_iamhuntermoore, often posting gym selfies and pictures of his dog.
In 2017, Substream Magazine revealed that Hunter planned to make EDM tracks on his release from jail, and he released one called Make The Internet Great Again. He also wrote a controversial book called Is Anyone Up?, which was released in 2018.
Since the documentary aired, Moore has participated in a few select interviews discussing the show. In one with Youtuber Daniel Wise, he was asked if what happened was something he wished he'd never done, to which Moore replied: "Flat out no".
"First of all, I mean this probably sounds horrible, but I’m proud of what I created, I’m proud of the community I created," he added. "Now hell do I wish I had gone about it in a different way? 100%, and you know I’m obviously more than sorry and definitely would love to apologise to people that were affected negatively by the website."
On Netflix's Tudum website, it states that Hunter had initially agreed to take part in their new docu-series The Most Hated Man on the Internet. But he later pulled out for unknown reasons. Producer Vikki Miller said of his U-turn: "When Hunter pulled out, I was initially disappointed but then I completely changed my mind and am so glad we ended up telling it through Charlotte Laws’ narrative."
Moore has since publicly explained his reason for withdrawing from the docu-series. In an August 2022 tweet, he shared that "they wouldn't let me tell my side of the story", adding that "60% of that Netflix documentary was BS".
Hunter Moore was a self-proclaimed “professional life ruiner” who found fame in the early 2010s when he founded IsAnyoneUp.com, a notorious ‘revenge porn’ hub. The site was originally meant to be a clubbing website, but he later posted a naked picture of a girl he was dating on it. When he checked back on the site a week later, there were 14,000 hits, so he decided to add more naked pictures.
However, this time the pictures he posted weren't just from people who had submitted them of themselves, but posted by other people – usually ex boyfriends and girlfriends.
When a picture popped up on the site, according to Rolling Stone it included: “The ex’s full name, profession, social-media profile and city of residence - which ensured that the pictures would pop up on Google,” leaving family members and employers likely to find the pictures. Hunter, along with a cohort, then began hacking people’s computers and posting indecent photos they found hidden in the owner’s files.
Over the course of the 16 months the website ran for, it posted - without consent -stolen compromising naked pictures of students, mothers, teachers, women in wheelchairs and even a woman on a doctor’s table post-surgery.
At its peak, it had an estimated 350,000 unique users a day, and up to $30,000 a month in advertising revenue. Hunter hid behind the law that it was “user-generated content."
When victims tried to send cease and desist letters or emails begging him to remove the pictures, he would often reply with just one word: “LOL”.
Featuring exclusive interviews with multiple women and men who fought to have their images taken down, law enforcement agents who worked the case and the crusaders who fought to take Moore down, The Most Hated Man on the Internet tells the story of how Hunter Moore finally got his comeuppance.
According to the government website, Revenge Porn is "the sharing of private, sexual materials, either photos or videos, of another person, without their consent and with the purpose of causing embarrassment or distress."
The offence applies both online and offline - so images which are shared electronically or in a more traditional way. It includes the uploading of images on the internet, sharing by text and e-mail, or showing someone a physical or electronic image.
Since 2015 in England and Wales, Revenge Porn has been an offence punishable by up to two years in prison and a fine, Under Section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Court Act 2015.
Yes, Hunter Moore was sentenced to prison for two years and six months between 2015-2017 for his Revenge Porn crimes. In February 2015, he pleaded guilty to felony charges for aggravated identity theft and aiding and abetting in the unauthorised access of a computer.
In addition to his time inside, Moore was ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation while behind bars, pay a $2000 fine, a restitution fee of $145.70, and serve three years of supervised release after he's out.
During his sentencing, US district judge Dolly Gee said: “He hid behind his online persona and engaged in aberrant behavior. Now you must face the consequences of your own actions. Your poor judgment has caused much pain to your victims and your family.”
According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons he was released from jail on 22 September 2017.
In 2021, Hunter tweeted: "You know my name not my story. You've heard what I've done, Not what I've been through."
Moore's exact and current net worth is not known. However, in a tweet he posted March 9, 2021, Moore claimed he had a fortune of $3 million. "Today I am 35 years old. Not married no kids. With almost 3mil on bank. Still hustling," the tweet read.
The following month, Moore shared a video of him counting cash on the social media platform, alongside the caption: "Still hustling".
Moore regularly shares updates on his wealth online. It seems the 36-year-old has invested in Bitcoin in the past, sharing one tweet that suggested he was to receive $350k for a March 2021 investment.
IsAnybodyUp.com was forced to shut in 2012, and the domain was handed over to anti-bullying site Bullyville.com. Founded by former US Marine James McGibney, he got Hunter to agree to sell the original domain and redirect to Bullyville instead.
At the time of the sale, Moore shared something close to an apology in an open letter, writing: "I think it's important that everyone realises the damage that online bullying can cause."
However, Hunter still regularly tweets about the site, recently posting: "On this day 12years ago I sold my site IsAnyoneUp, and the rest is history." Referencing the site, he also regularly tweets the question: "Is anyone up?"
Director of The Most Hated Man On The Internet, Alex Marengo, said of the importance of the Netflix series: “I immediately saw that this story could make an utterly compelling series: a crusade for justice against all the odds wrapped up in a world of real-life and online depravity.
"Some revelled in it, others had their lives ruined. I am so proud of our uniquely talented team who turned the lens onto Hunter Moore and turned his victims into the ultimate winners by giving them their voices, silenced until now.”
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Joining the successes of documentaries I Just Killed My Dad telling the story of Anthony Templet and mother turned murderer Lori Vallow Daybell in Sins of our Mother, comes a new Netflix true crime caper for viewers to sink their teeth into. The Most Hated Man on the Internet is a three part series which details Hunter Moore's crimes of setting up a revenge porn website - telling the story of mother Charlotte Laws who battles against him when naked pictures of her daughter are posted online without her permission.
Those that have already tuned in are full of questions - with the biggest one being where is Hunter Moore now? And did he go to prison for his crimes? We share everything there is to know.
Hunter Moore keeps a low profile nowadays following his release from prison in 2017. Hunter is still banned from Facebook, but is active on Twitter on the handle @_iamhuntermoore, often posting gym selfies and pictures of his dog.
In 2017, Substream Magazine revealed that Hunter planned to make EDM tracks on his release from jail, and he released one called Make The Internet Great Again. He also wrote a controversial book called Is Anyone Up?, which was released in 2018.
Since the documentary aired, Moore has participated in a few select interviews discussing the show. In one with Youtuber Daniel Wise, he was asked if what happened was something he wished he'd never done, to which Moore replied: "Flat out no".
"First of all, I mean this probably sounds horrible, but I’m proud of what I created, I’m proud of the community I created," he added. "Now hell do I wish I had gone about it in a different way? 100%, and you know I’m obviously more than sorry and definitely would love to apologise to people that were affected negatively by the website."
On Netflix's Tudum website, it states that Hunter had initially agreed to take part in their new docu-series The Most Hated Man on the Internet. But he later pulled out for unknown reasons. Producer Vikki Miller said of his U-turn: "When Hunter pulled out, I was initially disappointed but then I completely changed my mind and am so glad we ended up telling it through Charlotte Laws’ narrative."
Moore has since publicly explained his reason for withdrawing from the docu-series. In an August 2022 tweet, he shared that "they wouldn't let me tell my side of the story", adding that "60% of that Netflix documentary was BS".
Hunter Moore was a self-proclaimed “professional life ruiner” who found fame in the early 2010s when he founded IsAnyoneUp.com, a notorious ‘revenge porn’ hub. The site was originally meant to be a clubbing website, but he later posted a naked picture of a girl he was dating on it. When he checked back on the site a week later, there were 14,000 hits, so he decided to add more naked pictures.
However, this time the pictures he posted weren't just from people who had submitted them of themselves, but posted by other people – usually ex boyfriends and girlfriends.
When a picture popped up on the site, according to Rolling Stone it included: “The ex’s full name, profession, social-media profile and city of residence - which ensured that the pictures would pop up on Google,” leaving family members and employers likely to find the pictures. Hunter, along with a cohort, then began hacking people’s computers and posting indecent photos they found hidden in the owner’s files.
Over the course of the 16 months the website ran for, it posted - without consent -stolen compromising naked pictures of students, mothers, teachers, women in wheelchairs and even a woman on a doctor’s table post-surgery.
At its peak, it had an estimated 350,000 unique users a day, and up to $30,000 a month in advertising revenue. Hunter hid behind the law that it was “user-generated content."
When victims tried to send cease and desist letters or emails begging him to remove the pictures, he would often reply with just one word: “LOL”.
Featuring exclusive interviews with multiple women and men who fought to have their images taken down, law enforcement agents who worked the case and the crusaders who fought to take Moore down, The Most Hated Man on the Internet tells the story of how Hunter Moore finally got his comeuppance.
According to the government website, Revenge Porn is "the sharing of private, sexual materials, either photos or videos, of another person, without their consent and with the purpose of causing embarrassment or distress."
The offence applies both online and offline - so images which are shared electronically or in a more traditional way. It includes the uploading of images on the internet, sharing by text and e-mail, or showing someone a physical or electronic image.
Since 2015 in England and Wales, Revenge Porn has been an offence punishable by up to two years in prison and a fine, Under Section 33 of the Criminal Justice and Court Act 2015.
Yes, Hunter Moore was sentenced to prison for two years and six months between 2015-2017 for his Revenge Porn crimes. In February 2015, he pleaded guilty to felony charges for aggravated identity theft and aiding and abetting in the unauthorised access of a computer.
In addition to his time inside, Moore was ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation while behind bars, pay a $2000 fine, a restitution fee of $145.70, and serve three years of supervised release after he's out.
During his sentencing, US district judge Dolly Gee said: “He hid behind his online persona and engaged in aberrant behavior. Now you must face the consequences of your own actions. Your poor judgment has caused much pain to your victims and your family.”
According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons he was released from jail on 22 September 2017.
In 2021, Hunter tweeted: "You know my name not my story. You've heard what I've done, Not what I've been through."
Moore's exact and current net worth is not known. However, in a tweet he posted March 9, 2021, Moore claimed he had a fortune of $3 million. "Today I am 35 years old. Not married no kids. With almost 3mil on bank. Still hustling," the tweet read.
The following month, Moore shared a video of him counting cash on the social media platform, alongside the caption: "Still hustling".
Moore regularly shares updates on his wealth online. It seems the 36-year-old has invested in Bitcoin in the past, sharing one tweet that suggested he was to receive $350k for a March 2021 investment.
IsAnybodyUp.com was forced to shut in 2012, and the domain was handed over to anti-bullying site Bullyville.com. Founded by former US Marine James McGibney, he got Hunter to agree to sell the original domain and redirect to Bullyville instead.
At the time of the sale, Moore shared something close to an apology in an open letter, writing: "I think it's important that everyone realises the damage that online bullying can cause."
However, Hunter still regularly tweets about the site, recently posting: "On this day 12years ago I sold my site IsAnyoneUp, and the rest is history." Referencing the site, he also regularly tweets the question: "Is anyone up?"
Director of The Most Hated Man On The Internet, Alex Marengo, said of the importance of the Netflix series: “I immediately saw that this story could make an utterly compelling series: a crusade for justice against all the odds wrapped up in a world of real-life and online depravity.
"Some revelled in it, others had their lives ruined. I am so proud of our uniquely talented team who turned the lens onto Hunter Moore and turned his victims into the ultimate winners by giving them their voices, silenced until now.”
Hunter Edward Moore (born March 1986) is an American convicted criminal from Sacramento, California. Rolling Stone called him "the most hated man on the Internet." In 2010, he created the revenge porn website Is Anyone Up? which allowed users to post sexually explicit photos of people online without their consent, often accompanied by personal information such as their names and addresses. He refused to take down pictures on request. Moore called himself "a professional life ruiner" and compared himself to Charles Manson. The website was up for 16 months, during which Moore stated several times he was protected by the same laws that protect Facebook. Moore also paid a hacker to break into email accounts of victims and steal private photos to post.
The FBI started an investigation on Moore in 2012 after receiving evidence from the mother of one of the victims. The site was closed in April 2012 and sold to an anti-bullying group. In February 2015, Moore pleaded guilty to felony charges for aggravated identity theft and aiding and abetting in the unauthorized access of a computer. In November 2015, Moore was sentenced to two years and six months in prison, a $2,000 fine, and $145.70 in restitution. He was released from prison in May 2017.
In 2022, Netflix released The Most Hated Man on the Internet, a docuseries about Moore. Although Moore initially agreed to take part in the series, he then declined. The series reached No. 3 on the Netflix top 10.
Moore was born in March 1986 and he grew up in Woodland, California. He attended and was expelled from Woodland Christian School.
Moore started the website Is Anyone Up? in 2010. Moore stated that the site was originally intended to be a nightlife website, but after he and some friends received sexually explicit pictures from women they were involved with at the time, the site was changed, featuring revealing photos and videos of people who were not professional models, linked to their social networking profiles on Facebook or Twitter. Many of the subjects were outraged by inclusion on the site; in many cases the photos had been stolen from their hacked personal computers or shared without consent by former boyfriends or girlfriends as a form of revenge. Because of this, the site's content became known as "revenge porn". Moore reportedly responded to multiple cease-and-desist letters with simply "LOL" and would regularly argue that the law protected his activities.
Moore claimed that the website attracted 30 million page views monthly as well as yielding $8,000 to $13,000 a month in ad revenue. In response to public bragging by Moore about the website, BBC News named Moore "the Net's most hated man" and Rolling Stone called him "the most hated man on the Internet". Due to the site, Moore was banned from Facebook.
Moore eventually faced numerous lawsuits and an FBI investigation. He was also stabbed in the shoulder with a pen by a woman who had been featured on the site. Moore lived with his grandmother for a period of time while he feared he would be murdered in his sleep due to constant death threats.
On April 19, 2012, Moore sold the website to an anti-bullying group run by former Marine James McGibney for $12,000. After it was sold all the pornographic material was removed, and the URL was redirected to Bullyville.com.
Charlotte Laws, the mother of one of the victims on the site, decided to track Moore down and conducted a two-year investigation where she compiled evidence from more than 40 victims and gave it to the FBI.
In 2012, Moore and a hacker named Charles Evens (who went under the alias of "Gary Jones") were suspected of hacking-related crimes. The Wire stated that "on multiple occasions, paid Evens to break into the email accounts of victims and steal nude photos to post on the website isanyoneup.com." When it became apparent to Moore that news about his FBI investigation was beginning to surface to the public, Moore responded with "I will literally fucking buy a first-class fucking plane ticket right now, eat an amazing meal, buy a gun in New York, and fucking kill whoever . I'm that pissed over it. I'm actually mad right now."
Moore also threatened to burn down The Village Voice headquarters if they ran a story about his FBI investigation. They ran the story regardless.
On January 23, 2014, Moore was indicted in a federal court in California following his arrest by the FBI on charges of conspiracy, unauthorized access to a protected computer, and aggravated identity theft. Many of these crimes were committed in an effort to obtain nude images of people against their will.
Moore was released two days later from Sacramento County Jail on a $100,000 bond. He was allowed no access to the Internet, and was required by law to dismantle the archives he owned for the Is Anyone Up? database, while the FBI monitored him doing so.
On January 24, 2015, exactly one year after Moore had last tweeted, tweets began to appear on his account making it seem like he had returned to the Internet. Moore's mother revealed that his account was either taken over or hacked, and he had nothing to do with the tweets.
On February 18, 2015, Moore entered a guilty plea with the Central District of California U.S. Attorney's Office, in which he admitted to aggravated identity theft and aiding and abetting in the unauthorized access of a computer. In addition to his mandatory prison sentence, Moore also agreed to a three-year period of supervised probation, a $2,000 fine and $145.70 in restitution. He also received an order that he delete all the data on his seized computers. Under the plea, he would serve a minimum of two years in prison, and a maximum of seven years and a $500,000 fine.
On July 2, 2015, accomplice Charles Evens pleaded guilty to charges of computer hacking and identity theft, confessing to stealing hundreds of images from women's email accounts and selling them to Moore. He also faced up to seven years imprisonment.
On November 16, 2015, Evens was sentenced to 2 years and 1 month imprisonment, as well as a $2,000 fine and $147.50 in restitution.
On December 2, 2015, Moore was sentenced to 21⁄2 years in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. He was also ordered to undergo a mental health evaluation while imprisoned.
Moore was released from prison on September 22, 2017.
On March 8, 2013, Bullyville founder James McGibney won a $350,000 defamation judgment against Moore, after Moore called McGibney a "pedophile" and threatened to rape his wife.
Moore and his website are the subject of a three-part Netflix documentary, The Most Hated Man on the Internet. The end credits state that Moore initially agreed to feature in the documentary in person, but later declined to do so.
That moniker was given to Moore in a Rolling Stone article in 2012 that studies the origins of his revenge porn website IsAnyoneUp.com. Moore set up the site in 2010 and allowed users to share sexually explicit pictures of other people without their consent. Victims often had their personal information, such as names and addresses, circulated alongside their images.
The Rolling Stone articles claims that between 15 and 30 explicit images were posted per day during the 16 months that the site remained operational for. In April 2012 Moore sold the group to an anti-bullying group, who quickly shut it down.
However Moore and an associate Charles Evens were arrested on charges of conspiracy and unauthorised access to a protected computer. They were found guilty of hacking victims’ phones to obtain private images.
An FBI statement outlining the case read: “To obtain more photos to populate the site, Moore allegedly instructed Evens to gain unauthorised access to – in other words, to hack into – victims’ email accounts.”
Moore pleaded guilty in February 2015 and was sentenced to 30 months in prison, followed by an additional three years on supervised release. He was also ordered to pay a fine of $2,000 and $145.70 in restitution fees.
He was released in May 2017 and has popped up with a few media projects, despite generally keeping a fairly low profile. The same year as his release his released an EDM single titled ‘Make The Internet Great Again.’
One year later he published a booked called ‘Is Anyone Up!? The Story Behind Revenge Porn. The book purports to tell the story of the origins of the website and his own younger years.
At points since his release from prison, Moore has been active on Twitter and declared that he was “living my life peacefully now.”
“Look guys, I did my time behind bars,” Moore wrote. “Living my life peacefully now, it’s been a decade about what happened, some of you loves me and most of you hates me, if you want me to apologise well I wouldn’t. I don’t owe anyone anything.”
