She was created in December 2009 by Thomas Ryan, a security specialist and white hat hacker from New York City.
and used those profiles to contact nearly 300 people, most of them security specialists, military personnel, staff at intelligence agencies and defense contractors.
[2] Despite the fake profile and no other real-life information, Sage was offered consulting work with notable companies Google and Lockheed Martin.
Almost all of them were working for the United States military, government or companies (amongst the only organizations that did not befriend Sage were the CIA and the FBI[1]).
Using these contacts, Ryan gained access to email addresses and bank accounts as well as learning the location of secret military units based on soldiers' Facebook photos and connections between different people and organizations.