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I have a friend who has a computer that keeps getting hacked by her crazy Ex boyfriend. He had all kinda of back doors, hooks and keyloggers on there to get all of her passwords. She thought she found all of them, but apparently not now she is reformatting and changing her passwords (again).

It began with him finding out her password to an online game she plays and deleting all of her items there. Now it has come down to him hacking into her computer and deleting her My Documents folder.

She has the IP address of the offending computer logged and the person who is doing it has admitted it to another person. My question is what type of legal action can be taken? Is this a federal crime? The hacking is taking place from out of state.

Thanks.

Take it to your local authorities. Give them the info. If they are correctly trained, they can supeona the originating ISP for the person and get the ball rolling on nailing him to the wall.

He did a lot of her work for her... she knows who he is, now all that needs to be done is to prove it...

why not just goto his house with boltcutters and cut his hard-phone line.

Why not hack his computor to show that he did this?
Better yet, hack his putor and dump some kiddy porn on it then give a call to the feds...

Even better... Force install VNC then go through all sorts of sleezy websites that are funded by adware clicking "yes" whenever possible

She should hust cut his richard off.

Buahahah! Restraining order! Blanket party?

come on yall lets keep it to the point.

butlike Thrawn sed its a local police thang

Breaking into somebody elses computer is a federal crime IIRC. Let him do his bits while the feds are watching..

The guy will skate if charges are ever brought. There needs to be a system screen that pops up to logins stating that access to xyz computer is restricted to authorized guests and users blah blah blah, otherwise log off now.. etc etc etc

Bringing charges against him will incur costs to her anyway. Is it really worth it?

Grendel's correct. Hacking across state lines is a federal offense, so your friend should report it to both the local authorities and the Feds. I think the FBI handles those things. And I would suggest your friend get herself a new drive and set it up. Even though she deleted some of the things he did, I doubt she is knowledgable enough to have completely "wiped" that drive, so the material is still retrievable and the authorities will probably want to see it.

Dedman wrote:She should hust cut his richard off.

Hust cut? Sounds painful.