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If an e-mail address is hacked, what legal punnishment is there for the hacker?
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1994 a good year
The Masters a great event
The Final a marvellous match
The Winner a snooker genius
Alan McManus The Winner
Stephen Hendry The Loser
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Lol, are you the hacker or the hacked ?Originally Posted by mcmanusrules"You can shove your snooker up your jacksie 'cos I aint playing no more!" Alex Higgins. -
Hacked unfortunately.1994 a good year
The Masters a great event
The Final a marvellous match
The Winner a snooker genius
Alan McManus The Winner
Stephen Hendry The Loser
1994 a good year....Comment
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Depends on what you call hacked. You'd have to elaborate."I'll be back next year." --Jimmy WhiteComment
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1) Contact your ISP
2) Do you know who it was?!
Dan.Comment
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Was it an yahoo e mail id?Who needs 'The Rocket' , When RaNeN is here!Comment
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Well it depends.
If the hack was a commercial interception, then this is contrary to the RIPA Act of 2000. If the hacker seeked to gain any protected data this would surely be against the, this would be contrary to the DPA of 1998?
If you decide to take the hacker (should you know who he was), to a court hearing, he could be fined, forced to pay procecution costs, and even sentenced.
Chapter one of the IRPA of 2000 is about unlawful interception. I think you should read this.
Edit: I assume your case is a 'friend' or someone you know attempting to hack your account, not for any other reasons than to annoy you. As far as I'm aware, this is not against any law.
P.S. I'm not into computers, but how exactly do you hack an email account?Boris for PM!Comment
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Many people fall victim to "phishing" where a fake site (masquearading as a genuine site)asks them to input their email details and password. It then just steals these details.Originally Posted by Snooker Rocks!
These details are then often used to send thousands of spam emails from the hijacked account.
This happened to me when i was new to computers, and not as wary/aware as i should have been of such things.
In response i got a barrage of angry replies, people thinking i had spammed them, when it wasnt even me, and my ISP closed my account on me, as they dont condone spamming !!
Eventually I got it all sorted out though, when i explained to my ISP what had happened."You can shove your snooker up your jacksie 'cos I aint playing no more!" Alex Higgins.Comment
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OK - thanks for the info
Boris for PM!Comment
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The problems beenm sorted, thanks to all of you. No more info is to be given by me lol.1994 a good year
The Masters a great event
The Final a marvellous match
The Winner a snooker genius
Alan McManus The Winner
Stephen Hendry The Loser
1994 a good year....Comment
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