An alleged sex predator who tried to blackmail an Auckland teenager with sexually explicit photographs and videos, before launching an all-out cyber attack on her family and school, has been arrested in Denmark.
The 24-year-old man has been arrested and charged over an alleged "persistent online attack" against the schoolgirl, which New Zealand Police have described as "distressing" for the girl and her family.
It comes after the Herald exclusively revealed in June that cyber crime experts were working to track down the overseas sex predator after he targeted the schoolgirl by extorting sexually explicit photographs of her, and then tried to blackmail her into providing more images by threatening to post the original pictures online.
When she refused, he hacked into her family's home computers, stole their information, and then launched a denial-of-service attack on the servers of her high school.
He also uploaded the explicit images and videos to pornography websites, and bombarded the school's Facebook page with links to the sites.