DUNCAN, Okla_A Duncan woman said her
business and family is suffering after someone hacked her Facebook account.
Christina Joy said
she first noticed the messages last Friday. The hacker, posing as Joy, began
contacting anyone who left messages for her and even made threats to a family
member. Joy said she's changed her password three times since then, but the
hacker still has access to her account.
Once a hacker
gets into your Facebook account, they have access to your email account. The
hacker could then get into your email account and see transactions with your
business, bank and other personal information.
Christina Joy said
about 25-percent of her business has been lost because of this hacker, who
calls himself Mike. She said her Facebook account is how her current and
potential clients get in touch with her. So when this situation started, she
was worried.
"Basically,
if they see something like this, they are just not going to talk to me and they
are just not going to come in. It doesn't just affect me it affects my whole
business of where I work because they're going to be afraid."
She said things
got even worse when the hacker started making threats toward her and sending eerie
messages to family members.
"The last
one that scared me the most is where he put a family members name in it and
said I will be there giving you hugs and kisses, that scared me. I am not
willing to feel the guilt if something is to happen."
IT Specialist James
Kurth said hackers are now using a software called, Keylogger, which allows
them to monitor the victim's account in real time.
"From a
remote computer they see all your keystrokes. You can see through those key
strokes what kind of patterns you've done. In these cases, she changes her
email but this individual can still go in there and get that new password."
He said
internet users can protect themselves by periodically changing their password
or setting up a security code prompt whenever logging in from a different
computer.
"If
someone goes to log in, and it sends me that message on my phone and I wasn't
on my computer, I know something is up"
Joy said that
she has already contacted Facebook, her cell phone provider and even an
attorney about this situation. She said she has also filed a report with the Stephens
County Sheriff's Department.
The Stephens County
Sheriff's Department said, right now, they're still not sure if a crime has
even been committed.
