how to prosecute a facebook hacker

dexterfletcher321

Hi guys

We are currently in dispute with ex biz partners over a large sum of money. All lies on their behalf. Not that what this post is about but part of the claim is we have started a smear campaign about them

At the end of match this year my personal facebook was hacked. I had certain people blocked including these ex biz partners their family and their close friends. We came home to find on our business page a list of threatening posts and derogatory post from around 6 people our home address was posted

One of my close friends was then contacted and he was quoted a conversation i had had with my friend about our ex biz partner. Word for word.

Now heres the amusing bit. I received 7 emails of information today from our solicitor on this smear campaign we are allegedly conducting and he has screen grabbed 6 of my private messages and he has sent them to our solicitor. Some people are so dumb

My question is how easy is it to prosecute someone for hacking my account.

Thank you

agrinnall

Can't help you, but to be honest I don't really believe a word of it.

RumRat

That doesn't make a lot of sense, but -
You will have to get the Police involved. A friend of mine had problems with a FB campaign of lies and hate posts. The Police were involved and it has stopped.
I guess they will review your situation and give you the appropriate advice.

dexterfletcher321

RumRat wrote: »

That doesn't make a lot of sense, but -
You will have to get the Police involved. A friend of mine had problems with a FB campaign of lies and hate posts. The Police were involved and it has stopped.
I guess they will review your situation and give you the appropriate advice.

Hello

Thanks for the advice. Been talking to our solicitor this morning about it and he thinks i take the evidence that he was sent to the police.

I know it sounds crazy as i couldnt believe it either. I knew he had hacked us but didnt think he would be so stupid as to show us in emails

Its a crazy situation

Thank you

dexterfletcher321

Just to add

The ex biz pal has a very large ego and thinks he above the law. Yet he knows nothing about the law or social media

Nemoness

If I'm being completely honest, it'll be a lot of time, hassle and money spent and nothing will be done about it...

The web game is tricky, you have to have SOLID proof that it was them or you won't get anywhere.

Thanks

- Nemoness

poppellerant

Firstly, somewhere in your Facebook account setting it shows you the IP addresses of computers that accessed your computer. Save these now, before they realise how valuable this information is to you - they point to person who hacked your Facebook account.

I believe FB has two-way authentication using your mobile phone. Set this up, then change your password and security quuetions. If your browser allows saved passwords, take advantage of this and use a completely random password generated from many of the website found on Google when searching for "password generator": https://www.google.co.uk/#q=password+generator

SnowTiger

poppellerant wrote: »

Firstly, somewhere in your Facebook account setting it shows you the IP addresses of computers that accessed your computer. Save these now, before they realise how valuable this information is to you - they point to person who hacked your Facebook account.

That's a myth. An IP address cannot be used to identify a particular person.

I'm currently at my home in the Philippines. There's sixteen properties in the complex sharing the same IP address.

Also, when I'm back in the UK I freely allow visitors to use my wifi.

Also, I don't understand how Facebook would have the IP address of someone who accessed the OP's computer.

poppellerant

This is what I was referring to: https://www.facebook.com/help/174571515935086

The Active Sessions section of your Security Settings page shows you a list of the recent times your Facebook account was accessed. Each entry includes the date, time and approximate location when signing in, as well as the type of device used to access your account.

BadBehaviour

You can do a whois and see the provider behind that IP; this would allow OP to see if it's one of her accesses or not... if she can't tell by other things already.

BadBehaviour

SnowTiger wrote: »

That's a myth. An IP address cannot be used to identify a particular person.

I'm currently at my home in the Philippines. There's sixteen properties in the complex sharing the same IP address.

Also, when I'm back in the UK I freely allow visitors to use my wifi.

Also, I don't understand how Facebook would have the IP address of someone who accessed the OP's computer.

Facebook records the time of the access as well as the IP address. It's true that you can't know from the IP who exactly was using the device at that particular time, but you can definitely track down the person who is responsible for the Internet connection and pays for it. This is something that a provider would only tell the police.