Facebook hack causing real concerns at work?

[robin.mckay80]

Hello,

I am writing to ask some advice. Basically, on Sunday night, I posted a wall post about Richard Coles being on Master Mind.

Then I went off to do other things - on Monday night, I found that someone had put several posts on my Facebook page about my workplace. They were posts I NEVER made and have since made a public apology on Facebook and also deleted the relevant post and now closed my account since it was hacked.

However, what I find bizarre is that when I read the messages underneath the one I posted about Richard Coles, it said the messages were posted from my location and what I'm afraid of is that Facebook's tracking system will show that I posted the messages when I never did as some of them were about people at work and also about me.

To give an example, some messages were about work employees and my sex life and I would never post anything about my sex life on Facebook or disregard my employees in any way. I feel I have no choice but to quit my job as everyone who is associated with the incident has turned against me, despite the fact I have profusely apologised on Facebook and taken steps to delete the original post and close the account.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Robin

[Amanda]

Do you live with someone or do you live alone? If you live with someone, that person is probably the one who wrote those posts (if it truly wasn't you).

Also, do you use a wireless router? It's possible, since the posts came from your location, that someone broke into your router. This is why one should never leave the Internet open on an unprotected computer. This also applies to roommates/spouses. It's just asking for trouble. You should also put password protection on your router.

What's done is done. The only thing you can do is to continue to try to convince these people that it was not you, but you will have a hard time of that if what was in the posts is true.

To avoid this happening again, you should consider using a proxy. When you use a proxy from a reputable company, your information will be encrypted. But, this won't do any good if you continue to leave your Internet open if there are others in the house.