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She Watched Netflix with Her Boyfriend. Then She Got a Creepy Message from a Hacker About it…
IJReview ^ | 8-13-2015 | Kara Pendleton

Posted on 08/13/2015 1:27:02 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com

Toronto woman Chelsea Clark recently got a creepy surprise from a stranger on Facebook after watching Netflix with her boyfriend, reports Good Housekeeping.

The message contained pictures from her boyfriend’s laptop webcam of the pair in bed watching the streaming service together. There was only a short message from the hacker, using the name, “Mahmoud Abdo.”

The pair had no idea at the time they were being watched:

“We obviously had no idea it was taking place in the moment, but retroactively it was like a really, really deeply creepy feeling,” the 27-year-old told Newstalk1010. “It was very unnerving. I mean it does feel like there’s someone just in your home with you.”

The Facebook message was even more creepy for Clark because her Facebook settings didn’t allow contact from strangers. The images in the message show how intimately the couple’s privacy was invaded:

Clark reported the incident to police, Yahoo! News Canada reports. The police seized the computer and are analyzing it for clues. The hacker’s Facebook account has been deleted and is believed to have been fake. It’s also thought that the hacker knows the couple because of the connection between her Facebook account and the images taken with her boyfriend’s hacked laptop.

As reported in November 2014, it is really easy to hack into web cameras. One suggestion is to cover the camera lens on your computer or other device and close the laptop or other covering so you cannot be spied on.

Another safety tip is to change the default web camera password for those and other IP camera devices such as nanny cams, baby monitors, and home security cameras to help reduce the risk of them being easily hacked.


TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: laptopcamera; laptops; webcamera
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To: moovova
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21 posted on 08/13/2015 1:39:22 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: Yo-Yo

> I wonder if she has an ex-boyfriend?

My thoughts too. He could have already known her passwords and set up remote access beforehand


22 posted on 08/13/2015 1:40:07 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

I am mooning you right now.
Can you see me?


23 posted on 08/13/2015 1:40:19 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (I was conceived in liberty, how about you?)
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To: gorush
...who, as any fan of Bones and Sherlock knows, is patterned after:

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24 posted on 08/13/2015 1:41:17 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

This story makes me glad my tv is an old RCA from 1992.


25 posted on 08/13/2015 1:42:22 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (1 of 172)
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To: dfwgator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY

Somebody’s Watching Me—Rockwell


26 posted on 08/13/2015 1:42:57 PM PDT by exit82 ("The Taliban is on the inside of the building" E. Nordstrom 10-10-12)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

I have black tape over my camera eye on my laptop. If I need to use the camera, I can peel it off.


27 posted on 08/13/2015 1:44:10 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (If you can't make a deal with a politician, you can't make a deal. --Donald Trump)
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To: Cementjungle

And the microphone?


28 posted on 08/13/2015 1:45:00 PM PDT by upchuck (Drinking buddies and BFFs: Satan, nobama and the AntiChrist.)
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To: EvilCapitalist

This story makes me glad I don’t have a webcam and that I dumped my cable tv years ago. If my television dies (I still watch DVDs) and I have to buy a new one with spyware, it will not be connected to the internet.


29 posted on 08/13/2015 1:47:31 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com

There’s a website out there that lets anyone monitor in real time any number of tens of thousands of IP cameras that haven’t had their default passwords changed.

Put one of these up without changing the password, you may as well live in a glass enclosure at the mall.


30 posted on 08/13/2015 1:47:57 PM PDT by Nep Nep
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To: Bryanw92

black electrical tape is your friend


31 posted on 08/13/2015 1:49:46 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: upchuck

Not much you can do about...turn off the laptop?


32 posted on 08/13/2015 1:51:21 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Me, too. A long time ago.


33 posted on 08/13/2015 2:02:20 PM PDT by Jedidah
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To: UMCRevMom@aol.com
my dtr's computer received this scary warning suddenly from the "FBI" stating that she was looking at illegal content....to top it off, there was a picture of her sitting there, with our kitchen in the background....

from then on ALL of us have taped over the webcam.....

I know it was a virus but still, it was too close to home if they can do that...

34 posted on 08/13/2015 2:03:13 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Cementjungle

Seems to me the ultimate solution is to prevent the laptop from being hacked, period.


35 posted on 08/13/2015 2:08:00 PM PDT by upchuck (Drinking buddies and BFFs: Satan, nobama and the AntiChrist.)
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To: logitech

Honey, from these comments, I see we are far from the only ones who use black electrical tape on our laptop webcam lens (and thicker covering for the mics on it, too).


36 posted on 08/13/2015 2:11:19 PM PDT by WXRGina (The Founding Fathers would be shooting by now.)
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To: dfwgator
In America, Television Watches You.

Yep, but once the government writes software to troll those camera devices for images of terrorist activity, they'll insist that they need to record everything we do because it's the only way to fight terrorism. But they promise they won't look at the videos unless something gets flagged by their software.

37 posted on 08/13/2015 2:12:35 PM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: gorush

Had to research that one...Christopher Pelant, right?


38 posted on 08/13/2015 3:22:53 PM PDT by moovova
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To: Buckeye McFrog

>>black electrical tape is your friend

On your laptop, yes. But it defeats the purpose of all those other IP cameras that everyone thinks they need to watch over their precious stuff.


39 posted on 08/13/2015 3:25:02 PM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: Seruzawa

Bingo.... virtual OS is also something to consider.


40 posted on 08/13/2015 3:31:42 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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