Cassidy Wolf

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| image = Cassidy Wolf 2012.jpg

| name = Cassidy Wolf

| caption = Wolf in 2012

| title = {{ubl|{{nowrap|Miss California Teen USA 2013}}|Miss Teen USA 2013}}

| competitions = {{ubl|Miss California Teen USA 2012
(1st Runner-Up)|Miss California Teen USA 2013|(Winner)|Miss Teen USA 2013|(Winner)}}

| birth_name = Cassidy Marie Wolf

| birth_place = Temecula, California, U.S.

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1994|07|05}}

| eye_color = Grey

| hair_color = Blonde

}}

Cassidy Marie Wolf (born July 5, 1994) is an American TV host, model and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Teen USA 2013.

Pageants

While attending Great Oak High School in Temecula, she was crowned Miss Greater San Diego Teen USA.{{cite web|title=TEMECULA: Great Oak High senior goes for Miss Teen California|url=http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/temecula/temecula-headlines-index/20111223-temecula-great-oak-high-senior-goes-for-miss-teen-california.ece|publisher=The Press Enterprise|access-date=September 27, 2013|archive-date=February 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140201153308/http://www.pe.com/local-news/riverside-county/temecula/temecula-headlines-index/20111223-temecula-great-oak-high-senior-goes-for-miss-teen-california.ece|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web |date=2013-08-12 |title=Miss California crowned Miss Teen USA |url=https://fox5sandiego.com/news/miss-california-crowned-miss-teen-usa/ |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=FOX 5 San Diego & KUSI News |language=en-US}} Wolf was crowned Miss California Teen USA in 2013, and later the same year Miss Teen USA 2013 on August 10, 2013, in The Bahamas.{{cite web |url=http://www.today.com/news/newly-crowned-miss-teen-usa-i-was-victim-cybercrime-6C10898695 |title=Newly crowned Miss Teen USA: I was a victim of cybercrime |first=Scott |last=Stump |publisher=Today |date=August 12, 2013 |access-date=September 12, 2013 |archive-date=November 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127043344/https://www.today.com/news/newly-crowned-miss-teen-usa-i-was-victim-cybercrime-6C10898695 |url-status=live}} Wolf was crowned the 31st Miss Teen USA.{{cite web |last=Tolentino |first=Jia |author-link=Jia Tolentino |date=August 13, 2013 |title=Interview with Cassidy Wolf, the New Miss Teen USA |url=http://thehairpin.com/2013/08/miss-teen-us/ |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130923053508/http://thehairpin.com/2013/08/miss-teen-us |archive-date=September 23, 2013 |access-date=September 12, 2013 |website=The Hairpin}}

Victim of sextortion

Wolf was a victim of sextortion, after photographs of her were hacked and used in an attempt to blackmail her.{{cite web |url=http://news.sky.com/story/1129659/cassidy-wolf-miss-teen-usa-sextortion-victim |title=Cassidy Wolf: Miss Teen USA 'Sextortion Victim' |publisher=Sky News |date=August 16, 2013 |access-date=September 12, 2013 |archive-date=June 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610225015/http://news.sky.com/story/1129659/cassidy-wolf-miss-teen-usa-sextortion-victim |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cassidy-wolf-miss-teen-usa-claims-she-was-extorted-by-an-online-hacker-report-says/ |title=Cassidy Wolf, Miss Teen USA, claims she was extorted by an online hacker, report says |work=CBS News |date=August 14, 2013 |access-date=September 12, 2013 |archive-date=November 21, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131121025131/http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504083_162-57598489-504083/cassidy-wolf-miss-teen-usa-claims-she-was-extorted-by-an-online-hacker-report-says/ |url-status=live }}{{Cite news | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26616913 | title=Miss Teen USA hacker jailed for 18 months | work=BBC News | date=March 18, 2014 | access-date=June 20, 2018 | archive-date=November 22, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171122135204/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26616913 | url-status=live }} The FBI ran a probe after Wolf reported a threatening email demanding a 'special performance' for the hacker, whom she suspected to be Jared James Abrahams, her former high school classmate. Wolf never created the video demanded, and on September 26, 2013, Abrahams surrendered to FBI agents in Orange County.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}} In November 2013, Abrahams pleaded guilty to hacking over 100-150 women and installing the highly invasive malware Blackshades on their computers in order to obtain nude images and videos of them. One of his victims was a 14-year-old girl.{{cite web | url=http://www.businessinsider.com/jared-james-abrahams-gets-18-months-in-prison-2014-3 | title=Hacker Who 'Sextorted' Miss Teen USA Gets 18 Months In Prison | publisher=Business Insider | date=March 18, 2014 | access-date=March 19, 2014 | author=Moss, Caroline | archive-date=December 25, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161225032733/http://www.businessinsider.com/jared-james-abrahams-gets-18-months-in-prison-2014-3 | url-status=live }} On March 18, 2014; Abrahams was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison.{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/miss-teen-usa-webcam-hacker-jared-james-abrahams-sentenced-to-18-months-in-prison-9200575.html|title=Miss Teen USA webcam hacker Jared James Abrahams sentenced to 18 months in prison|work=The Independent|date=March 18, 2014|access-date=March 19, 2014|archive-date=October 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005210015/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/miss-teen-usa-webcam-hacker-jared-james-abrahams-sentenced-to-18-months-in-prison-9200575.html|url-status=live}} Legal scholar Star Kashman speculates that Abrahams used the technique of Google Dorking to find and target Cassidy Wolf's webcam online, leading to the act of sextortion.{{cite journal |last1=Kashman |first1=Star |title=GOOGLE DORKING OR LEGAL HACKING: FROM THE CIA COMPROMISE TO YOUR CAMERAS AT HOME, WE ARE NOT AS SAFE AS WE THINK |journal=Wash. J. L. Tech. & Arts |date=2023 |volume=18 |issue=2}}

Achievements

Wolf was a semi-finalist for the Los Angeles Music Center Spotlight Awards and a Merit Recipient for the National Young Arts Foundation. She has also been awarded several talent scholarships to Joffrey Ballet in New York City and was invited to be part of the professional Trainee Jazz Program.{{cite web|title=CASSIDY WOLF|url=http://www.missuniverse.com/members/profile/656990|publisher=missuniverse.com|access-date=September 27, 2013|archive-date=August 11, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130811160949/http://missuniverse.com/members/profile/656990|url-status=dead}}