Where Is Hunter Moore Now? All About the “Most Hated Man on the Internet” 10 Years After He Was Jailed for His Revenge Porn Site
- - Where Is Hunter Moore Now? All About the “Most Hated Man on the Internet” 10 Years After He Was Jailed for His Revenge Porn Site
Jessica SagerJanuary 27, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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Hunter Moore in 'The Most Hated Man on the Internet'.
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Hunter Moore bragged about being called the "Most Hated Man on the Internet" — even after it landed him behind bars.
In 2010, Moore founded IsAnyoneUp.com, which allowed visitors to submit nude photos of exes or anyone else they wanted without the consent of the person in the photo. Moore then published the images, along with the person's social media account links and full names, often prompting a deluge of harassment and humiliation for the victims.
Moore was notorious for replying "LOL" to requests to remove photos from his site, which he also used to document his hard-partying lifestyle. He previously told Rolling Stone that he sought to "dominate the world, like the white P. Diddy." Notably, in 2025, Sean "Diddy" Combs was sentenced to four years in prison after he was convicted of two counts of transportation to engage in prostitution.
Moore sold IsAnyoneUp.com in 2012, and landed in prison not long after. Here is everything to know about where Hunter Moore is now.
Who is Hunter Moore?
Hunter Moore.
Hunter Moore/Instagram
Moore was born in March 1986 and raised in Woodland Hills, Calif., where he attended Woodland Christian School until he was allegedly kicked out, as he told The Daily Beast. He dropped out of public school when he was 13 and quickly went into business on the Internet, developing AOL Instant Messenger chatbots and teaching himself how to edit photos.
Moore said two incidents as a teen shaped his life moving forward: His first love, a girl named Rachel, breaking his heart when he was 15, and a sexual harassment lawsuit he filed stemming from an assault he allegedly experienced while working at a retail store, per Rolling Stone and The New Yorker.
Moore said he used the six-figure settlement he received from the lawsuit to travel the world, eventually moving to New York City. He then became a hairstylist for a fetish pornography website and began hosting sex parties.
In 2010, Moore launched his website, IsAnyoneUp.com, making him famous — and infamous — online for his depictions of debauchery and sharing and mocking nude photos of people (mostly women) without their knowledge or consent.
What was Moore's website called?
Kirra Hughes in 'The Most Hated Man on the Internet'.
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In 2010, Moore founded IsAnyoneUp.com, a site where he posted revenge porn without the subjects' consent and linked the images to the victims' social media accounts and real names.
"How it started was I was having sex with this girl who was engaged to this kind of semi famous band guy, and all my friends wanted to see her naked because she was so cute," Moore told Rolling Stone in 2012. He had difficulty sharing the images of the girl with his friends, so he uploaded them to IsAnyoneUp.com, a domain he'd previously purchased for party promotion, but never used.
His friends then began uploading other images to the domain, and he noticed that within a week, the site had 14,000 unique visitors.
IsAnyoneUp.com allowed users to upload images anonymously and to comment on other revenge porn photos. Within a year, Moore told BBC News that the site had 300,000 visitors per day. According to The Village Voice, IsAnyoneUp.com went particularly viral when it hosted shirtless nude photos of All Time Low bassist Zack Merrick.
"People obviously want it, and I'm going to give the people what they want," Moore rationalized to BBC News, adding that he originally drew the line at posting images of teachers, but changed his mind.
"I realized that's where all the traffic is," he said. "I have to pay my bills. I'm just a businessman. I just monetize people's mistakes that they made and it's kind of a shady business. But if it wasn't me, somebody else was going to do it. All I did was really [I] perfected the way to monetize people's naked pictures."
In April 2012, BBC News reported that Moore sold IsAnyoneUp.com to Bullyville, an anti-bullying website. According to Rolling Stone, Moore then launched an IsAnyoneUp-branded tumblr account, which hosted self-submitted nudes of his followers.
What did Moore do?
Charlotte Law in 'The Most Hated Man on the Internet'.
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In running IsAnyoneUp.com, Moore published images without the consent of the people within the photos, and those individuals were often the same people who took the photos.
As a result, posting selfies without the consent of the photographers constituted copyright violations. BBC News reported that one woman's photos were removed thanks to a copyright claim, after which Moore switched the site to as many as 40 different servers in efforts to evade legal action.
But, that wasn't all he did that drew attention from investigators. Moore and another man, Charles Evens, began hacking victims' email addresses and social media accounts to obtain photos that they'd later post on IsAnyoneUp.com.
He and Evens would then lock the victims out of their email and social media accounts, adding a secondary email address to each: [email protected], per The Village Voice.
Charlotte Law, the mother of one of the victims whose account was hacked, advocated for legal action against Moore and alerted the FBI to what happened not just to her daughter, but to several other victims with whom she'd spoken.
What was Moore charged with?
Hunter Moore.
Hunter Moore/Instagram
The FBI started investigating Moore after Charlotte turned over her compiled materials and he and Evens were arrested in January 2014. Both were charged with a total of 15 counts, the FBI said in a statement: one charge each of conspiracy, seven counts each of unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information and seven counts each of aggravated identity theft.
According to the FBI, Moore paid Evens to hack into accounts and send him any nude photos found there, so he could publish them on IsAnyoneUp.com.
Moore pleaded guilty to one count of unauthorized access to a protected computer to obtain information for purposes of private financial gain and one count of aggravated identity theft, the Los Angeles Times reported.
He and Evens both faced a mandatory two-year minimum if convicted of identity theft, the FBI noted in their statement, which would have to be served consecutively with any other sentence they received. They also faced up to five years in prison for the hacking charges and conspiracy.
What was Moore's sentence?
Hunter Moore's inmate card.
Hunter Moore/Instagram
Though Moore faced seven years in prison as the maximum sentence for his offenses, he was sentenced to 30 months (two and a half years), the FBI announced in December 2015. Evens pleaded guilty to the same two counts and received a 25-month sentence.
Moore, whose conduct Judge Dolly M. Gee deemed "particularly reprehensible," was also ordered to pay a $2,000 fine.
Where is Moore now?
Hunter Moore.
Hunter Moore/Instagram
Moore was released from prison in 2017, after which he underwent three years of supervised probation. In 2018, he published the book Is Anyone Up? The Story of Revenge Porn.
In a July 2022 interview, Moore said he didn't have any remorse.
"If there were any regrets, it's that I didn't go 10 times harder, that's probably my only regret," he said. "If I'm being completely honest, I'm not here to cry a river, I've done my time, obviously these people were affected by the site and I feel bad for them, and they obviously need to air their grievances, but at the end of the day I did my time."
The same month, he posted a response to Netflix's The Most Hated Man on the Internet docuseries on Instagram, lamenting that the show set out to "make [him] look bad" and didn't showcase any of the alleged "good" he did in the world. According to the filmmakers, Moore had initially agreed to take part in the Netflix series but later changed his mind.
Moore has laid low since his prison release and mainly uses social media to document his fitness journey.
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