Within that law, Congress approved court-martial punishment for servicemembers who engaged in the “wrongful broadcast or distribution of intimate visual images,” typically nude photographs shared without the subject’s permission, often called revenge porn.

They would not say Monday whether active-duty or reserve servicemembers were suspected of distributing the content, which was made illegal in December as part of the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act. Carla Gleason, a spokeswoman for the Pentagon, confirmed the new allegations span beyond the Marine Corps and could include all of the military services. The latest case, unveiled in a report by Vice News last week, alleges 267 photographs of female servicemembers had been shared online in a Dropbox folder titled “Hoes Hoin’.” Immediately upon learning of the new allegations, the Marine Corps alerted the Naval Criminal Investigative Service about the photographs, Marine Corps Capt.

WASHINGTON - Pentagon officials have launched a new investigation into allegations files containing hundreds of lewd photographs of servicewomen have been recently shared on the internet, just about one year after a nude photo-sharing scandal rocked the Marine Corps and the Defense Department.

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