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Facebook hacker arrested in Bangladesh

Posted on August 9, 2015 by Dissent

Here’s a recent news item I missed from Bangladesh:

The Detective Branch (DB) of police arrested a hacker, who has so far hacked 100 Facebook accounts especially of female users to blackmail them, in the capital’s Merul Badda yesterday.

Mahmudul Hasan, 20, a fourth semester computer science and technology student of East-West University, hacked FB accounts, gathered their personal pictures and information and finally threatened the account holders to leak those on social media if they did not accept his indecent proposals.

Read more on The Daily Star.


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2 thoughts on “Facebook hacker arrested in Bangladesh”

  1. Anonymous says:
    August 14, 2015 at 7:55 pm

    https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100007213740184&fref=ts

    1. Dissent says:
      August 14, 2015 at 8:34 pm

      Not sure what you were trying to point us to, but I don’t see any content available there.

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