California Courts of Appeal
Jul. 23, 2011
Facebook hacker nailed for identity theft
Hacking into someone's Facebook profile counts as identity theft, a state appellate court ruled late Thursday in a published opinion.
By Laura Ernde
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Hacking into someone's Facebook profile counts as identity theft, a state appellate court ruled late Thursday in a published opinion.
A juvenile identified only as Rolando S. obtained a girl's password and logged into her account, changing her profile and posing as her to post obscene messages on two of her friend's pages, Kings County Superior Court Judge George Orndoff found.
Finding the boy committed felony identit...
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