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Perv hacked into daughters MSN account
gregf27 - 16/9/09 at 08:28 AM

my 15 yr old daughterr had her MSN account hacked into a couple of days ago, whereby they had hacked into a friends msn account and pretended to be her. they then stated to her, they had her password and took control of her account and would only give it back if she did 3 minutes on web cam for them,( my daughter informed me straight away and was in a right state) they boasted they had been doing this for 5 years and had still not been caught!, can anyone help out as to what to do to try and catch this oxygen thief! they had aslo hacked into my daughters friends facebook account too. Daughter has closed her msn account down, any genuine helpful advice greatly appreciated. --( would like to meet them!!!)

adithorp - 16/9/09 at 08:36 AM

Have you phoned the Police?

Mr Whippy - 16/9/09 at 08:36 AM

as they've used her friends account how can they be traced?

best thing to do is get all her friends to change their passwords to proper ones. No doubt there boy band members names or something equally stupid.


[Edited on 16/9/09 by Mr Whippy]

l0rd - 16/9/09 at 08:37 AM

I would contact the police straight away.

handyandy - 16/9/09 at 08:37 AM

sorry i don,t know enough about computers to offer any advice,
but this sort of thing makes my blood boil, its a horrendous thing to do
i hope your daughter is ok.

i have a 14yr old daughter & know where you are on your feelings "to meet this person".......10 mins in a locked room & no questions asked after i,d be finished with them

andy

m8kwr - 16/9/09 at 08:38 AM

When i log into my gmail account, it does log the IP address of where i am.

Surely MSN do the same, and this can be given to the autorities, and tracked back accordingly.

But to get this sort of information the police would have to get involved, you could not get it yourself.

Mr Whippy - 16/9/09 at 08:42 AM

quote:
Originally posted by m8kwr
When i log into my gmail account, it does log the IP address of where i am.

Surely MSN do the same, and this can be given to the autorities, and tracked back accordingly.

But to get this sort of information the police would have to get involved, you could not get it yourself.


maybe Chris or Fozzie would be able to tell you just what kind of information can be expected

locost@mintynet.com - 16/9/09 at 08:43 AM

U2U sent

mookaloid - 16/9/09 at 08:44 AM

Why are you wasting time asking on here - go straight to the police. They need to know about this stuff.

l0rd - 16/9/09 at 08:51 AM

And do not forget to tell them that this is a blackmail.

nick205 - 16/9/09 at 08:51 AM

I would contact these people in this order...

1. Police
2. Your ISP
3. MSN
4. Your daughter's friends parents

At least your daughter alerted you straight away on this - the worry is how many parents have no idea what their kids are upto online. Hope her and her friends are OK!

l0rd - 16/9/09 at 08:55 AM

So from now on, apart the conversation that you have with your children about Sex and everything else, you need to have a conversation about the internet and the rest.

Mr Whippy - 16/9/09 at 09:00 AM

quote:
Originally posted by l0rd
So from now on, apart the conversation that you have with your children about Sex and everything else, you need to have a conversation about the internet and the rest.


I don't think the internet is a place for kids on their own tbh. There's no way I'd let them use it unsupervised and the computer should be in the living room not a bedroom

02GF74 - 16/9/09 at 09:05 AM

police.

I am sure if the police wanted to, they could play them along to arrange a meeting, that is if they are not too busy eating doughnuts or stopping drivers doing 56.738 mph in a 50 mph dual carriageway.

l0rd - 16/9/09 at 09:05 AM

yes, but the problem is that children have access to other computers as well and you might not always be there with them.

school
mobiles

nib1980 - 16/9/09 at 09:09 AM

contact these people immediately

http://www.ceop.gov.uk/

also police

r1_pete - 16/9/09 at 09:47 AM

quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
police.

I am sure if the police wanted to, they could play them along to arrange a meeting, that is if they are not too busy eating doughnuts or stopping drivers doing 56.738 mph in a 50 mph dual carriageway.


They do, I have 1st hand experience of it, not from the offender angle I might add.

blakep82 - 16/9/09 at 10:20 AM

quote:
Originally posted by l0rd
And do not forget to tell them that this is a blackmail.


and shes 15, so you know what that makes them... police would love to know that.

make sure she changes her passwords etc asap too. has she ever logged into one of these 'see who deleted or blocked you on msn' type things. you put in your email address and password, and to be fair it does show you, but it also sends a email to everyone in you email. fairly tame, but i guess it depends who it is. with the info you put in, they could do whats been happening

[Edited on 16/9/09 by blakep82]

jeffw - 16/9/09 at 10:32 AM

Certainly this is a Police matter.... I work in IT security and MSN will be more than happy to assist the Poice with this. Get onto them straight away.

eznfrank - 16/9/09 at 10:58 AM

I can speak very highly of CEOPS having previously referred matters to them. Despite the fact that what I was referring seemed perhaps a bit trivial they jumped on it very quickly

A1 - 16/9/09 at 11:29 AM

theres viruses that get sent on msn in the form of a link, I got one recently and now i get signed out randomly etc.
id tell the cops etc though.
hope you get them.

tegwin - 16/9/09 at 11:47 AM

Sorry to say that the chances of finding anyone are slim..

Report it anyway...



For an experienced web programmer it would not be difficult to exploit the system and do things such as this with little chance of having a trace completed!

Mr Whippy - 16/9/09 at 11:52 AM

quote:
Originally posted by 02GF74
police.

I am sure if the police wanted to, they could play them along to arrange a meeting


MakeEverything - 16/9/09 at 12:20 PM

quote:
Originally posted by l0rd
And do not forget to tell them that this is a blackmail.


Its also attempted extortion of a minor, child abuse, fraud (hacking?), grooming, etc etc.

I would call the police straight away. They will deal with it, albeit quietly until they get close to catching him / her.

steve m - 27/10/09 at 02:53 AM

Going on from this thread, and i do hope it has been sorted now
I also have come across a problem on my grandsons (reece) yahoo email account,

basicly a friend, has used Reece's email account to access a couple of porn sites, and is using the email account for himself, so i changed the password, and even Reece doesnt know it.
I checked every couple of days, nothing new to report, then last week, i can not access the account, as its had its password changed

So now we reece has an email account that he cant use, his mate is using it for dodgy porn sites, Yahoo dont give a stuff as we can not get the password, and its sending me over the edge

i have left the best bit to the end, Reece is 9, NINE, and so is the mate

if only i could get into reeces account and once in, can contact yahoo, to close it down

Ninehigh - 29/10/09 at 07:26 PM

Sod that sign up to everything possible using the old email, and get your lad a new one. Get that git so much spam his head will curl!

Also if you can get hold of his phone number

Staple balls - 30/10/09 at 11:59 AM

I imagine the password isn't the problem, but the password recovery stuff.

Best bet is to change the answers to something that's not the answer to the question, but another password. That way even if someone does know everything about you, they can't get into your accounts easily.