Stickam, the webcam site the New York Times says is backed by Japanese pornographers and Stickam PR says isn't, has a spam problem. CEO Steve Fruchter says last November, hackers broke into "an old community forum system" and stole 2 million Stickam user email addresses. Now users keep getting email from a company called SlickCam. A Stickam flack told the Times its contacted "the Secret Service and a specialized Internet security research firm" in effort to halt the onslaught. Is it working?

Nope. At least according to one Stickam user, Dan Hendricks, who Twitters:

okay, how the hell are these stickam bots getting my email?? all the sudden i'm getting all these spam messages. bye bye stickam account.

Our question is, if the Secret Service is really involved (and we seriously doubt they are), under what kind of jurisdiction do they have any authority in a case like this?

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