What can we do, legally?

Someone hacked into my girlfriend's yahoo and myspace accounts. They have changed the password and information on the yahoo account, so we can no longer access it. On myspace, they have compiled messages sent to several of her friends relating to an argument between her, my mother, and myself. They sent that compiled message to my mother and me, as well as put it in a bulletin for all of our friends to see. Those were private messages.

Is there anything we can legally do to this person. Any way to find out who it is? Any charges we can bring this person up on? Her mother knows some investigators, but is it actually possible to find out who did it?

What can we do, legally?

It's really not worth the time. It would be one thing if the hacker had pulled out credit card information and had bought a bunch of stuff without authorization because then you'd be able to show actual damages, but if this person only changed passwords and sent out some private messages, the courts are going to consider this a minor inconvenience at the most. As a result, your girlfriend wouldn't be able to sue for damages and the police probably wouldn't even bother prosecuting. Best thing to do is for your girlfriend to set up new accounts and check her computer system for spyware, then make sure no one else uses her computer if possible and she shouldn't log on to any of her accounts anywhere but from her home computer.

What can we do, legally?

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