Former New Jersey officer sentenced for hacking accounts, sharing explicit photos

A former New Jersey police officer has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after officials said he hacked into the social media accounts of multiple women and distributed nude images they had of themselves.

In a news release, Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw announced that on September 5, 2025, a sentence was handed down in Superior Court in Mount Holly to Ayron Taylor, 25, of Moorestown.

Taylor had pled guilty in March to Second-Degree Elements of Computer Theft and Second-Degree Official Misconduct.

Officials said the investigation into Taylor began in September 2022 after a victim contacted Evesham Township police to report that an unknown person had hacked her Snapchat and Facebook accounts. That unknown person then sent nude photos she had taken of herself to her Snapchat contacts, messaged them to her Facebook friends, and posted them on her Facebook wall.

According to officials, as the investigation continued, it was found that the commonality among all victims was that each one had a student email account through Rowan College at Burlington County.

It was later found that Taylor had illegally obtained access to approximately 5,000 Rowan College at Burlington County email accounts.

Officials said Taylor became a full-time officer in Mount Laurel after graduating from the police academy in October 2021. The charges reflect that Taylor was engaging in illegal computer activity from his own personal devices while on duty.

Taylor was immediately suspended from the department following the initial charges, and officials said he then resigned after.

“You cannot hide from us in cyberspace – we are there, too, and we know how to find you,” Prosecutor Bradshaw said. “This was an extremely nightmarish invasion of privacy for these victims. It was made even more egregious by the fact that the person who was terrorizing these young ladies was a law enforcement officer.”