Law enforcement officials in Trinidad and Tobago are may have to subpoena a US-based company to retrieve the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of the persons responsible for posting and trying to sell nude photos of young Trinidadian woman and under-age girls, according to local media reports.
The hundreds of photos were leaked on social media on Wednesday.
But police say that the operators of the website where the photographs were uploaded had recently switched to a new server based in the US.
Law enforcement officials will therefore have to go through Central Authority to subpoena the company, which has been identified as Digital Ocean Inc.
Police Corporate Communications Manager Ellen Lewis said victims have been coming forward and reporting the crimes to the Fraud Squad, which is leading the investigation with support from the Cyber Crime Unit. She urged others who are similarly affected to come forward as well.
Some of the 500 women who were pictured have come together and have identified a group of men they say is behind the spread of the photos.
They have pointed fingers at medical students of the University of the West Indies (UWI) St Augustine campus.
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