A previous employee of ADT from North Texas is facing a prison sentence for repeatedly logging into customers accounts to spy on them inside of their homes.
Erin Nealy Cox, from The Office of U.S. Attorney, reported 35 year old Telesforo Aviles, please guilty Thursday to charges of Computer Fraud.
According to court documents, he routinely added his personal email address to customers’ ADT Pulse Accounts while installing their security systems inside residences in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Doing this gave him access to their videos feeds in real time.
Sometimes Aviles would even add himself to different accounts without the knowledge of the customer and other times he would claim he needed to add himself to their accounts to temporarily test the system. Both were found to be against ADT’s company policy.
He also took notes of the homes with attractive women and logged into their accounts also, court records state. Watching videos of naked women or couples engaging in sex for his own gratification.
He gained access to nearly 200 customers’ accounts and performed this act over more than 9,600 times over a four-and-a-half-year period, Aviles admitted.
“This defendant, entrusted with safeguarding customers’ homes, instead intruded on their most intimate moments,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Prerak Shah. “We are glad to hold him accountable for this disgusting betrayal of trust.”
On ADT’s website, it stated that it reported to law enforcement officials and took immediate action to prevent the same thing from happening again. Aviles was fired from the company immediate this past April.
Aviles is now facing a sentence of up to five years in federal prison. He is also being sued by several of the victims, according to news reports.
