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Local High Schools Identified on Website That Solicits Nude Photos

Users on the website, Anon-IB, request, trade and post photos of former students, according to an NBC 5 investigation.

Several local high schools are on a list of at least 67 Illinois schools in which supposed former students have had their nude photographs shared on a notorious anonymous website. The website, Anon-IB, is known for sharing stolen nude photos of celebrities and female Marines. NBC-5 Chicago last week revealed its findings following a two-month investigation into Anon-IB.

The website includes threads under logos of several Illinois high schools with nude photos of supposed former students included. Users have been sharing and trading the photos over the past three years, according to NBC.

Local high schools that have threads on the website include Crystal Lake Central, Crystal Lake South, Prairie Ridge, Cary-Grove, Jacobs and Dundee-Crown high schools were all in the list, according to NBC 5.

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"They call these pictures 'wins,'" a woman, who was identified as Jennifer, told NBC Chicago. Jennifer, a St. Charles North High School graduate, said she sent an intimate photo to someone a few years ago and it ended up on the website.

"I feel angry. I feel violated and disgusted," she told NBC Chicago.

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