MY FB ACCOUNT WAS HACKED, SAYS STUDENT

My FB account was hacked, says student

ALOR SETAR Jan 21, 2012: A medical student from AIMST University who is alleged to have threatened Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak in a Facebook posting, claimed that her account was hacked.

Her mother, who declined to be named, said her daughter’s account had been hacked twice and that she would never post such a comment in her Facebook account.

“She only came to know about the posting when police called her to give a statement.

“She has not ruled out the possibility that it could have been done by someone she knows. We, her family, are very angry over the matter,” she said at her house in Taman Syed Mohamed here yesterday.

The second-year student, in her 20s, had purportedly posted that if Najib boarded an airplane, she would shoot it down. She was said to have posted the threat which included vulgar words in her Facebook status update.

She was detained at 10pm on the same day and released at 9am on Thursday after her statement was recorded.

A check on her Facebook account showed that the posting was put up at 4.36pm on Wednesday and had more than 100 comments.

Meanwhile, Deputy International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir urged youths to be careful of what they post or comment on social network sites.

“Even though we have a right to freedom of speech we should be responsible with what we write,” he said after presenting aid to 100 pupils from poor families.

Last week, a 24-year-old undergraduate from USM was detained for questioning after threatening to bomb Najib’s helicopter, also through a Facebook posting.