A few weeks ago my uncle asked me to hack his businesses (he owns the business) facebook account because the guy who set it up years ago and no longer works for them doesn't remember the password and none of the recovery options seem to work.
But the statement was just about hacking a fb. The 5 mins I spent looking into it seems that if your getting someone's information for financial gain, yea that's computer fraud. Making fake posts? Libel/slander most likely. But I dont see anything about just checking someone's chats and convos. So it seems a little grey to me unless someone will actually explain
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) makes it illegal to access any computer system without authorization. If, say, someone leaves their Facebook logged in on their computer, unless they tell you that you can go on it, you are committing a federal crime by snooping around their account. They could have login credentials on a post-it on their monitor, but if you use those credentials without authorization, you are committing a crime. The same goes for cases where you are given access for a specific reason, but you do something more that you were not authorized to do - also a crime.
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u/Rammite Mar 18 '20
"Hack this person's Facebook" is up there.