I'm not exaggerating when I say that Charlotte Laws has done an amazing service for humanity (especially the vagina-having half): She spearheaded an effort to shut down a revenge-porn website that featured a stolen photo of her daughter, and in doing so, helped many other victims of the site and helped spur California into adopting anti-revenge porn legislation.

Laws tells her story on XOJane. It's a teeth-grinding, rage-inducing, occasionally melodramatic account from an amazingly nonjudgmental, uncompromising mom:

Within a week, I had spoken with dozens of victims from around the country, and my findings were astonishing. A full 40 percent had been hacked only days before their photos were loaded onto Is Anyone Up? In most cases, the scam began through Facebook and ended when “Gary Jones” gained access to the victim’s email account. Another 12 percent of my sample group claimed their names and faces were morphed or posted next to nude bodies that were not theirs; and 36 percent believed they were revenge porn victims in the traditional “angry ex-boyfriend sense” (although some of these folks were on good terms with their exes and thought the exes might have been hacked). Lastly, 12 percent of my sample group were “self-submits.” The "self-submits,” of course, are not victims at all; they are individuals who willingly sent their images to Moore. In the end, it was disturbing to realize that over half of the folks from my informal study were either criminally hacked or posted next to body parts that were not theirs.

You should really read the whole thing. And then when you're good and creeped out, go read Tone's excellent advice on how to set up two-step verification for your email account.