Honey Boo Boo 203 Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 http://mashable.com/2014/07/13/cyberbullying-stalking-leander-texas/?utm_cid=mash-com-fb-main-link It's a long article, but I now have a fear of social media. 12-year-old best friends Melody Coffey and Julia Young continuously receive messages from 'Danielle', at least someone posing as her from all her accounts although there is proof that she's not sending them anything. They even receive messages about what they are doing and what they are wearing and an increase of unknown vehicles have been seen outside their homes. 'Danielle' continues to send messages to the girls, saying she knows what they are doing cause there's a man in their attic. The accusations against Danielle build up and she was pulled out from her school and sent to another, but coincidentally that same day they received the following message, "Tomorrow's my last day . **** you , and whatever , at my new school I'll tell everyone that you lost your virginity , they won't know you and they will believe me . … goodbye my broken princess ." Once she left middle school, Danielle's powers seemed only to multiply. On April 1, Julia's mom, Christine, opened Instagram to find her profile photo deleted and her bio changed to "I'm a hater, lol." In four hours, From Dates to Diapers got two dozen login attempts from an unfamiliar IP address. The Coffey's home wireless network had become the target of a broader security breach. Because of the timing, Marti is certain it connects with their social media troubles. At one point Marti found their Wi-Fi disabled. She ran a search and found four different IP addresses assigned to her network, two from a small town 50 miles away, another on a blacklist of domains known as common sources of spam emails. For an attack she believes began with a pre-teen, it was a cruel reversal to find herself without administrative privileges on her own home network. "I was the child system," she says, "no longer the parent system." She drove the girls to a spy shop in Austin to learn how their phones had been bugged, then to the computer shop next door, where a repair man was baffled. At Best Buy, a technician suggested their home network had been hacked and their cellphones cloned  that someone copied their SIM cards in order to spy on their texts from another phone. But that only explained some of the trouble. A detective told her nobody could bug an iPhone unless it had been jailbroken, but a friend employed by Apple revealed it is, in fact, a little-known possibility. A Time Warner Cable technician near Marti's house offered to contact an ex-con friend who knew networks well; the friend suggested some LAN remote access software was at work, but couldn't be specific. Marti contacted a company named CyberDefenses to sweep the house for bugs, but the search came up empty. She had the phones checked for malware. Nothing. They installed security cameras in the front of their house; within minutes, one of Danielle's accounts taunted that the cameras were a nice try, but not good enough. The Coffeys switched from Time Warner Cable to AT&T Uverse, got a new modem and a new router. Marti traded her Samsung Galaxy S4 for an S5, then traded that for an iPhone. For a while she only used a simple, prepaid Cricket phone. Her old Toshiba was playing host to unmentionable viruses. Within days of buying a new one, it too crawled with strange programs and files. She found VPN software installed and imagined the worst: Her home had become a way station for illicit material changing hands on the deep web, and there was nothing she could do. Melody refused to sleep in her bedroom. Julia ran crying to her mother as new attacks appeared, calling her ugly, a slut, threatening to spread lies. Then they discovered Melody's phone was logged in to one of Danielle's Instagram accounts. The parents took it as chilling proof Danielle was using their phones as part of the scheme. One Sunday afternoon in early March, Melody asked Marti if she should still be going to school. Marti told her sure, as long as she wasn't getting death threats. Within 15 minutes, the first death threat arrived via direct message from Julia's Instagram account: …If you don't kill yourselves, I will. You can go ahead and tell Julia that I am on her account, and I'm going to pretend to be her. I'm going to make everyone hate her. The Coffeys and the Youngs filed online impersonation charges against Danielle with the local police. Hoping to reach more tech-savvy investigators, they asked for help at the FBI office in Houston, then reached a director at the Texas Attorney General's Office. Marti emailed: "How can we explain the situation to a channel of law enforcement capable of dealing with the sophistication of these crimes?" But the FBI wouldn't get involved because it would interfere with the two local agencies' already open cases. The attorney general's office could only offer assistance to local police. And Marti says Leander PD refused the help. As they logged the latest threats from Instagram and Twitter on the Facebook page, the real-world threats deepened. First, the message about the man in the attic. Then on April 8, while Julia and Melody were studying in Melody's room, they got a message claiming to be from Danielle, who said she could see them doing homework and hear their music. Leaving their phones inside, they walked to the front yard with Marti and Christine, just in time to see a white truck go by. Returning inside, Julia picked up her phone. "There was a text saying, 'I just drove by, I'm going to go eat, I'll talk to you guys later,'" she recalls. Christine adds, "‘And that was me in the white truck.'" They began tracking unfamiliar cars on their streets, reporting license plate numbers to the police. Christine hatched a plan with Marti  without telling the girls, communicating only on handwritten notes and borrowed cellphones  to send Julia and Melody to California to live with Christine's sister. On the West Coast, the girls got new phones. Weeks passed with no word from Danielle. After a few weeks in California, Julia and Melody returned to Texas. At the time of writing, the attacks have relented. But any time Christine's phone drops a call, or Marti finds an app on her computer she doesn't remember installing, they wonder. "I'm not 100% confident," Marti says. "I still feel like they want to get in. I feel like I'm on that list." Melody and Julia will start seventh grade together at a new school this fall. Concerned for the girls' safety, their parents won't say where. While they wait for Instagram to return the subpoenaed IP addresses for Danielle's messages, Christine and Marti don't expect any revelations. "But I do believe it's gonna come back to us," Christine says. Since their phones were hijacked anyway, they figure the only IP addresses on the messages will be their own. If that happens, she says, the police have told her she can simply drop the charges and walk away. Above: Edited tl;dr version A dolla makes me holla!💰💵💸 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kermit the frog 1,936 Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 He wanted to have some fun I guess Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robotboy 1,700 Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 creepy stuff Remember that you are unique. Like everyone else. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHANTEL 2 Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 He wanted to have some fun I guess He's spying on them +he's sending death threats it's wrong it's not 'fun' Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kermit the frog 1,936 Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 He's spying on them +he's sending death threats it's wrong it's not 'fun' there are all kinds of fun tbh Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazza96 0 Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 That is soooo creepy , it sounds like a plot for a horror movie! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHANTEL 2 Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 there are all kinds of fun tbh and it's still Illegal and wrong. I don't care if he's having fun or not. I really hope you're being sarcastic Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Josh 3 Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Why do I think this is a pr scam Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azor Ahai 18,861 Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 I didnt understand much Someone has been spying on their home and using their accounts to post death threats and making people hate the little girls , but what happened at the end ? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honey Boo Boo 203 Posted July 14, 2014 Author Share Posted July 14, 2014 Why do I think this is a pr scam Read the whole article Joshykins where have you been A dolla makes me holla!💰💵💸 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kermit the frog 1,936 Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 and it's still Illegal and wrong. I don't care if he's having fun or not. I really hope you're being sarcastic Yeah, I'm just trolling here. Sorry Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
giskardsb 12,565 Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 there are all kinds of fun tbh thats the kind of "fun" that should get him sent to prison. It's not fun it's harassment, as is a lot of what people call "fun" on the internet. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honey Boo Boo 203 Posted July 14, 2014 Author Share Posted July 14, 2014 I didnt understand much Someone has been spying on their home and using their accounts to post death threats and making people hate the little girls , but what happened at the end ? The messages has seemed to have stopped but the case is still going on and the hacker probably still has access to their home network. They're awaiting for Instagram to send them the IP addresses for Danielle's messages. A dolla makes me holla!💰💵💸 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsterdreams 1,529 Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 That is creepy Ugh this is an example of the internet being used in a very bad way Haters gonna need more than a flashlight for my shade Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Josh 3 Posted July 14, 2014 Share Posted July 14, 2014 Read the whole article Joshykins where have you been Inb4 it's the mom I've been trying to spend less time on the internet this summer How are you doing Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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