A Florida woman gave a TikTok creator remote access to her computer in October 2025 so he could troubleshoot an application, she told police. She described the request as routine tech help.
Months later, she said, that man told her he had essentially placed a virus on her machine while she was in the bathroom.
He is Mark Stephen Asea, 36, of Port St. Lucie. She told investigators she never authorized that access.
Asea now faces a revived felony case. The St. Lucie County Jail booked him Sept. 30 on a charge of offense against computer users, and sheriff’s office records set his bond at $35,000.
According to the police affidavit, a photograph from a private Telegram message on the woman’s phone later appeared in one of his TikTok posts.
Asea wrote in a comment that the image came from a WhatsApp exchange, the affidavit states. The woman handed investigators a screenshot that showed the photograph inside her Telegram message.
Police also documented a video in which Asea appeared to claim he had located her through her phone. The affidavit quotes him: “Thanks to the GPS within her phone, but what did I do?”
Investigators said Asea uploaded more than 100 TikTok videos that mentioned one woman. On some days, he posted as many as six.
Investigators also said he obtained a website and used it to publish a photograph of her getting a tattoo.
The affidavit describes a second woman with a separate complaint.
A detective reviewed a video in which Asea allegedly listed details about her devices and said he knew what she had recently spent.
A transcript in the affidavit records him saying, “Let’s talk about your actual password,” and then, “How about we talk about the last 10 purchases you made online?”
That woman told investigators she had shared the password only inside a closed TikTok group chat. Asea was not a member, she said, though she suspected he had joined through a fake account.
Nobody in that chat had permission to pass the password along outside the group, she told police.
She added that she did not know how he could have obtained her phone identification number or her banking information.
This is not the first time Asea has landed in handcuffs over these allegations. Police arrested him in April on stalking and computer-related allegations.
Prosecutors dropped those charges in May, according to court records.
Prosecutors reopened the case Sept. 24 and filed a new charge alleging unauthorized access to a computer or electronic device.
The records provided do not explain why the earlier charges were dropped or what led to the renewed prosecution.
Asea’s TikTok biography lists “Demonologist,” “Clairsentient,” “Empath,” “PTSD,” “Grey Hat Hacker” and “Woodsman.”
An account biography documented in the April affidavit used different labels, including “former satanist” and “cybersecurity engineer.”
Asea also faced a separate civil stalking protection case this summer.
A woman won a temporary injunction in July, and a judge dissolved it and dismissed the case Sept. 8.
Asea is scheduled to be arraigned Nov. 19.
