Hackers............

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of the nasty computer kind.............The other night daughters FB account was hacked and the culprit posted a vile horrible post regarding the Hillsborough tragedy and the fact the families were still fighting for justice for those who died or were injured on that day. The main gist of it was it was the fault of the people who were dead or got injured they were all drunk and the families should accept the truth no matter how bad it was.........now 2 things the rant was posted on a closed group and my daughter wasn't online until very late in the evening.

Then the 'fun' started daughter has recieved death threats, and other threats, she's the most hated person who ever walked the earth and everyone in Liverpool wants to kill her. Then we started getting phone calls from someone who said he was a reporter from the Liverpool Echo......I checked with their editor......no not a reporter from them and they had no idea as to what had happened I told the editor the story and she assured me that something like that would be of no interest at all.........so that was that, then the yard started getting harrasssed by this bloke.........so I called the police then.

Last night daughters computer and tablet and phone were all subjected to a forensic test to se if the post had come from her devices.......she was cleared quite catergorically of any wrong doing.....but what I want to know is our house phone is ex directory, they knew exactly when I was home as on the second phone call he asked to speak to me.........then he waited until Andrew (son in law) had left the yard and said to yard owner 'now Andrew had left she could dish the dirt on the pair of them' YO was shocked I know in the past we have probably made a few 'enemies' but none who would go to these lengths surely

[ladyndibs]

OMG that is awful, are they able to track the IP address of the actual poster?

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they have collected the evidence from the original post from the admin of the group and are tracing the IP once they find out who it is then they will go and 'sort it out' as they put it

[wills]

Hope they get it traced & sorted asap & hope the admin of the group the message was posted on have been alerted and are able to inform the group it was a hacker. Your poor daughter, even tho she is innocent its embarrassing to be linked to such a vile thing. Not nice thing at all & freaky to. Glad they are taking it seriously. X

[mollichop]

that is absolutely not only awful but blooming frightening too!! who the hell was 'the man'??
I hope to goodness they can catch whoever has started this and put a stop to them..... and rapid!!

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it was scarey last night, daughter and son in law terrified something was going to happen tothe horses not only theirs but anyone elses, but YO is a sensible lady and knows that she could not have posted something as vile as that. The admin for the group have accepted it was not daughter and have sorted that side out. They have traced the phone number to an address, and they will be sortingthat side out as well..........had police cars doing sweeps past the house all night, and the yard as well, thank you Lancashire police, daughter and son in law down at the yard now but all is well down there, but vigilance is the order of the day for the next couple of weeks or so............had to call the police as it was getting far too scarey to be just a prank, when someone threatens to come to my house and burn it down or kill my daughter then I take it very very seriously

[ladyndibs]

Thank sort of thing isn't a prank, a prank would be photo shopping a nude picture, not nice but no massive harm done.
This was vile not only to your family but to the victims families as well. Threats of violence and intimidation should always be taken seriously.

[kafee]

That's a really nasty thing to do, all round. I hope the police find the culprit, and 'sort him out'.

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Well had a visit from teh police last night, to tell us they have traced the phone calls and the owner of the mobile........he has been arrested and charged with harassment and they said they would see if htey could get him on stalking as well...........the originator of the computer message has also been tracked down and as I thought it is someone we do know, from the past,so she will now be charged as well.........daughter posted on her Facebook account that her PC had been hacked and that the police had been called and she also posted the reference number for the incident and gave the PC's email address as well............lots of people messaging her on FB telling her not to worry about anything, she also resorted to posting it to all the Hillsborough related groups on FB for which she was thanked very nicely and to the Liverpool FC webpage as well..........so hopefully all of this will now go away

[happysnail]

How frightening Christine. It sounds like the police have taken it very seriously and I hope they get a conviction. Take care. x

[kafee]

The police have obviously been very thorough, thank goodness. That was a totally evil thing to do. Let's hope this the last of it.

[jackiedo]

my goodness christine - do I know them? I Have been hacked and posts that seemed to come from me have been very difficult (happened about the same time as a case that was going on at work) and on facebook it said i was in places I wasn't..... but this is awful.
I changed my account by the way

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doubt very much you do know them Jackie........but its all been taken care of and the guilty parties are being charged with various offences...........people may think I've a little bit OTT but I take threats of bodily violence very seriously it one thing to say it in fun but quite another thing to have those threats repeated down the phone in the wee small hours of the night!
ANyway its all being dealt with

[wills]

Dont think your being OTT at all. Glad its been dealt with swiftly.

[Furiey]

I'm glad to hear that the police have taken things seriously and found the people involved. Too many people believe that they can get away with this sort of behaviour and that they are anonymous in their use of the internet or on the phone. As the people harassing you have found out they aren't anonymous, they can be traced and held to account for their behaviour which is far from being acceptable.