DULUTH, Minn. -- A University of Minnesota Duluth student has been sentenced to electronic monitoring and probation for trying to blackmail his cousin into sending him nude photos of herself.
Twenty-four-year-old Anthony Phillip Dzik of St. Paul was sentenced Friday to 45 days of electronic monitoring and five years of supervised probation.
Before he was sentenced, he said he was "very sorry for all of this."
Prosecutors say he tricked his cousin into allowing him access to her computer accounts, including Facebook and MySpace. Dzik testified that he inflicted a virus on her accounts that deleted files.
Prosecutors say he threatened to steal her identity and hack into her friends' accounts if she didn't send the nude photos.
Dzik must also pay a $200 fine.
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