A Florida man accused of accessing women’s private computers and personal information before discussing it in TikTok videos has been arrested again after prosecutors reopened the case.
Mark Stephen Asea, 36, was taken into custody at his home in Port St Lucie on 30 September and charged with a felony offence against a computer user, according to St Lucie County court records. He remains in the county jail on a $35,000 bond.
The allegations centre on claims that Asea obtained passwords, banking details, device identifiers and location information belonging to women, then referred to them in videos posted to his TikTok account.
Alleged TikTok posts
In one video examined by investigators, Asea allegedly referred to a woman’s password, IMEI number and MAC address before discussing her ten most recent online purchases. She told police she did not receive emailed receipts for those transactions, leading her to believe he had accessed her banking information.
The woman said the password had been shared in a private TikTok group chat. She did not believe Asea had been a member of the group and suspected he may have used a fake account to gain entry.
Investigators also allege that Asea claimed he could track the woman using her phone’s GPS and knew the registration number of the vehicle she was driving.
A second woman told police she had given Asea remote access to her computer in October 2025 so he could help resolve an application problem. She later accused him of installing malicious software while she was away from the machine.
She said a photograph that existed only in a private Telegram exchange on her phone subsequently appeared in one of Asea’s TikTok posts. According to the police affidavit, he claimed the image had come from a WhatsApp conversation, but the woman provided investigators with a screenshot showing it in the Telegram message.
Police said one of the women was mentioned in more than 100 TikTok videos, with as many as six posts appearing in a single day. Investigators began examining the account in April after reviewing a video in which Asea allegedly discussed sensitive information connected to the woman.
Asea was initially arrested in April on two computer-related charges and one count of stalking. Those allegations were dropped in early May, and the case was closed later that month before being reopened on 24 September with the new computer-access charge.
He also faced a separate civil stalking protection case during the summer. A temporary injunction was granted in July but later dissolved, and the case was dismissed on 8 September.
Asea is due to appear in court for arraignment on 19 November. The allegations have not been tested at trial.
