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Consequences of Hacking into Someone’s Facebook Account: Social Media Law

Is it illegal to hack into someone's social media account?

Social Media attorney Daniel R Warner explains the real-life legal consequences of hacking into someone’s Facebook account or other online profile.

Imagine waking up one morning to texts from your friends and family asking about your recent Facebook posts. You’re receiving screenshots of Facebook posts and Direct Messages that you know you would never send – and in fact, that you didn’t. When you try to login into your Facebook page, your password isn’t working, and you realize someone must’ve changed it. When you try to reset it, you realize you’re also locked out of your email account!

This nightmare isn’t hypothetical. Insider reports that 533 million Facebook users’ phone numbers and personal data have been leaked online. Daniel Warner has also seen it happen to clients more than once. In fact, a woman named “Blair” (fake name) says she’s been the victim of Facebook fraud at the hands of her former lover.

Hypothetical Situation:

Blair filed a defamation lawsuit in response to the hacking, but the court dismissed the case because the statute of limitations had run out. The statute of limitations in most states for defamation is only one-year. See RM Warner’s Statute Of Limitations Guide Here. All was not lost however, as an appeals court panel later reversed the lower court’s decision allowing Blair to continue with her online defamation case.

This lawsuit is important because it highlights the consequences of hacking into someone’s Facebook account or other social media profile. But more importantly, there are severe consequences for hacking into another person’s Facebook or other social media account, under the federal law, the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

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