MightLoseMyJob

Yeah fair enough. My main concern and reason for succumbing to the blackmail wasn't out of fear of embarrassment, but fear of losing my job. Given that this was my concern, if something like company passwords had been a demand then of course it would have been a denial. But at the time I felt like a couple K was worth not risking the loss of my job.

Hahaha well you sound like an excellent employer. It's not so much that I care in the sense that I'd be embarrassed, but am just scared of losing what is currently desperately needed income. If she had the contact info of just my boss I'd probably text them and be like "Hey you should know about x". But she has the contact info of several coworkers, including female coworkers, and I fear that the discomfort it would cause them could be grounds for firing.

Yes. I know I'm an idiot.

Not underage, and there truly is nothing more to it. I wouldn't create a throwaway account on hackernews only to leave out critical information such as that.

I don't think I could be fired for exchanging the photos with her, but if she sent them directly to the people I work beside every day then I can't imagine that'd foster a positive work environment.

I don't think threatening to reciprocate the blackmail is something I'd ever want to do, both for moral and legal reasons. I don't think they'd fire me for being a blackmail victim, but I wouldn't be surprised if they fired me for creating an uncomfortable work environment should my coworkers receive those photos.

Nudity/sexually explicit acts. Nothing illegal or particularly extreme. My concern is with losing my job and source of income as a result of those photos being shared, not the photos themselves as much.

It's nothing so bad as that. Just relatively mundane sexual stuff as you say. I'm really not so concerned with the images themselves, and moreso am concerned with losing my job as a result. They could be hung on posters around town for all I care, so long as I don't lose my job.

I just worry that if they were sent out to my coworkers she found via my linkedin, that it would create a work environment in which they would really have no choice but to let me go.