NYPD detective fesses to hacking colleagues’ email and phones

He also tapped the federal National Crime Information Center database, without permission, to dig up information on at least two fellow cops.  

Edwin Vargas, a 42-year-old detective assigned to a precinct in the Bronx, paid hackers more than $4,000 to obtain the usernames and passwords of at least 43 personal email accounts and one cellular phone belonging to at least 30 different individuals, including NYPD officers.

Among the 20 current or former NYPD employees he targeted were the two officers whose information he accessed in the NCIC database and an NYPD administrative employee, a court press release states. 

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