An American staffer at the United States Embassy in London has been accused of running a sextortion scheme—amazingly, primarily from his heavily monitored, government-owned work computer.(…)

According to the Journal-Constitution, Mona Sedky, a senior trial attorney who flew down from Washington, DC, for the hearing, told the court that a search of Ford’s computer “turned up a spreadsheet of 262 e-mail addresses,” presumed to be his victims. She also told the court that Ford confessed to the agents that arrested him, saying that he was “unable” to stop his behavior.