In several cases, prosecutors said he told the women via Facebook that he was working on a “human societies” project for a class and posed a series of questions such as the make and model of their first car, the name of their first pet or the city where their parents met. He then used that information to reset passwords and gain access to online accounts, including a cloud-based system that stores data from cellphones.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 26, 2019 20:26 UTC