Internet Legal Questions and Answers
What Are The Penalties in Virginia for Computer Hacking?
If an individual is convicted of spying by computer, what is the likely punishment for first offense?
08/28/2009 | Category: Internet » Hacking | State: Virginia | #18308Can Information Gained by Hacking be Used in a Divorce?
I am in the middle of a five year divorce. My husband hacked into my emails. I moved away to get away from him the main way I communicate with my attorney is through emails. My husband got over 400 attorney/client private communications from me. He then fired his attorney and hired a new one who then tried to use this information in open court against me. The emails contained v...
08/05/2009 | Category: Internet » Hacking | State: New Mexico | #17960What is My Recourse If Someone Forwards My Email to Another Computer?
What can I do if someone broke into my email and forwarded mails to their email address?
07/02/2009 | Category: Internet » Hacking | State: Georgia | #17307Can I be jailed for hacking into my wife's facebook account?
I knew my wife was hiding secrets from me so I got into her email so I could access her facebook account. I found out that she was having an affair with a coworker. I copied and pasted their comments to a word document for the purpose of proof. I am going to inform his wife since he is married as well. I lost my daughter since she took her once I found out. She is now threate...
04/19/2009 | Category: Internet » Hacking | State: Wisconsin | #16050What can we do if we believe our former CEO is trying to access our new CEO's email?
Our weekly report of authority/system reports revealed that a the former Chief Financial Officer of our company made three attempts to log into our current Chief Financial Officer's mail . We have identified their 'workstation' , 'geostation' and 'Thinkpad' ID numbers as his. Is this a crime? Should the company contact an attorney?
01/17/2009 | Category: Internet » Hacking | State: New Jersey | #15015What is federal law regarding hacking?
The Federal Computer Fraud & Abuse Act seems to only pertain to hacking financial and government information on "protected" computers. I know of someone living in California who has deleted files of other users accounts on an internet social networking site, through a program that would select which users he wanted to delete, and start deletion when they visited his user pro...
09/11/2007 | Category: Internet » Hacking | State: ALL | #8629