help!!! someone hacked on-line acct. and said i sent death threats!

[Guest]

please help me! I am looking for a way to call up my history! Someone hacked my on-line pogo act name and sent a death threat to themself, now they are producing it as evidence. I haven't been to that site in quite some time. Can I pull up history for the date and show i never went on that day? I know it is almost impossable to prove a negative. I was never there never sent it, but might go to jail for conspiracy to commit murder!!! I am going to produce my hard drive as some kind of relief. (anyone know about forensics?) But i would like to prove (because I know this as fact) that my comp has been hacked and that I was not at that site on the proposed day. They never reported to police because I think they would be scared a forensic expert would prove it was not my IP. What can I do?

 

[Robert Moir]

please help me! I am looking for a way to call up my history! Someone
hacked my on-line pogo act name and sent a death threat to themself,
now they are producing it as evidence. I haven't been to that site in
quite some time. Can I pull up history for the date and show i never
went on that day? I know it is almost impossable to prove a negative.
I was never there never sent it, but might go to jail for conspiracy
to commit murder!!! I am going to produce my hard drive as some kind
of relief. (anyone know about forensics?) But i would like to prove
(because I know this as fact) that my comp has been hacked and that I
was not at that site on the proposed day. They never reported to
police because I think they would be scared a forensic expert would
prove it was not my IP. What can I do?

They are "producing it as evidence" but yet they never reported it to the
police? That doesn't make any sense and I'd tell them to shut up and stop
talking nonsense!

The "online pogo" people presumably are your first port of call to contact
as they probably have logs of who has done what with their accounts,
certainly any of the default "history" records that are kept on your
computer are not adequate to prove anything one way or the other, I'm
afraid.

 

[Rick]

The simple answer is to ask your ISP to secure the logs of your accesses for
possible evidentiary needs. Do the same with the webmaster of the Pogo
site, asking them to secure those logs for possible uses in a legal
discovery process. Ask them to specifically secure the access logs
detailing the posting of the 'supposed death threat' . . . and if this
problem is likely to lead to crimminal proceedings, make these request by
Certified Mail-Return Reciept as well as the online contact. These logs
will prove or disprove access from the IP address assigned your computer, on
to your ISP and finally Pogo at the alledged time of the threat, and whether
the message was in fact posted by the same IP address as the one your ISP
assigned your when you logged on (if you did).

In regards to someone hacking into your computer and then making the threats
from there, forensics indeed could provide a wealth of information one way
or another . . . including attempts to change or alter tracks to support the
accusation. However, since this has not been reported to LE it is extremely
unlikely to ever get as far as a forensic examination of your hard drive. I
could do one for you . . . at several thousands of dollars.

The simple fact is, if you DID NOT make these threats as accused, that a
simple review of Pogo's access logs (by Pogo, themselves) should prove or
disprove to their satisfaction. They are unlikely to accept anything you
could offer as evidence from your hard drive. That's like asking a rapist
to do his own DNA test for the prosecution!

Rick
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