Spurned Allentown Resident Arrested for Hacking Upper Saucon Woman’s Facebook, Yahoo Account

Editor's Note: The original version of this article has been edited to remove the name of the perpetrator because he completed an ARD (accelerated rehabilitative disposition) program and his record has been expunged.

After a lengthy investigation, Upper Saucon Police arrested an Allentown resident for hacking into an Upper Saucon woman’s Facebook and Yahoo accounts. The man, who was charged with Harassment in the third degree, ran into the woman at the Promenade Shops in July 2010. After “being ignored” by the woman, the man (on his own admission) accessed her Facebook and Yahoo accounts and posed as the woman.

He sent photos of the woman “depicting her in underage drinking, and another showing her tongue piercing” to her father. He then sent a lengthy email to the woman’s father “expressing that she no longer wanted her father in her life” as well as a Facebook message to the woman’s boyfriend saying that she no longer wanted to date and had cheated on him. He then changed her password for her Yahoo account as well as linking a different email address to the Facebook account, locking the woman out of both accounts.

Police were able to pull the I.P. address, which identifies the address of a specific computer, from the emails sent to the woman’s father. Through the Lehigh County District Attorney’s office, the police then submitted the address to identify the address of the individual who had accessed the accounts. In December 2010, RCN identified the man. Police then contacted him and he admitted he had accessed both accounts, sent the emails, and changed the passwords.