3 held for spreading porn hacking Facebook IDs

Police arrested three of at least 19 administrators of a Facebook group “Desperately Seeking – Uncensored (DSU)” on charge of spreading and using pornography to humiliate and harass people.

Towhidul Islam Ornob, Xobayer Ahmed and Asif Rana were arrested at Green Road on Wednesday noon while several cellphones and a computer were seized, said Dhaka Metropolitan Police Detective Branch Joint Commissioner Abdul Baten yesterday.

Addressing a press briefing, he said a Bangladeshi expatriate in Malaysia, Mohammad Raul Chowdhury, created the group containing 1.22 lakh members.

The administrators and their accomplices used to hack Facebook IDs of people, especially those with high social status and female models, actresses and college students, and post pornography on their timeline to tarnish their image. 

“In many cases, they blackmailed the targets for money,” said a police official preferring anonymity, adding that one victim, a Dhaka Medial College student, recently tried to commit suicide.

They hacked her ID and shared a personal video of the girl in the group before it went viral, he added.

The group collectively tried to hack and humiliate anyone who tried to write or share views against them, DMP counter terrorism unit Assistant Commissioner SM Jahangir Hasan told The Daily Star. 

The police officer who led the drive claimed to have viewed the activities of the administrators and their accomplices though logging in with the password of the arrested three administrators.

“They are actually people with a distorted mentality. Many of their words are beyond expression,” he said on what he saw after using passwords of the three to log in and view activities of the administrators and their accomplices.

The news of the arrest was hailed on social media.