Hacking Update

Several readers have asked for identification of the people who are responsible for the hacking and the question arose as to whether there were other activities by them that people should know about.

All the current evidence points to Tama a/k/a “TL” Anderson as the primary person who appears to have directly committed the hacks. She also, of late, has gone by the name “TL McKinstry.” Her husband may or may not be estranged from her. She said they were estranged. I don’t want to give his name unless we have additional evidence that he was acting in concert with Tama, or “TL” as everyone knew her. He has a sensitive job at a security firm and I suspect that he didn’t actively assist or conspire with Tama. In fact, I’m not yet convinced he knows anything about her activities.

Our two main websites are www.livinglies.wordpress.com and www.lendinglies.com. But “TL” has invented email addresses that appear to be email accounts on the LendingLies website. Those email addresses are not real, but they are used as a logon to accounts and data that are the property of GTC Honors, Inc., who owns the lendinglies and livinglies websites.  It seems likely that many people will receive correspondence or solicitation from websites with a similar sounding name to ours. If it has the word LIES in it and it isn’t LendingLies or LivingLies, then it isn’t from us and is probably a newly minted or newly used website.

So the real test of whether an email is genuine or spam created by her is simply to see what she says. If it says Neil Garfield or any other lawyer is under investigation or that we are terrible people, thieves or whatever, that is from Tama/TL. She is angry with me personally because a long time after we concluded a legal matter for her and her husband, she suddenly demanded a refund. The file was closed a year and a half before her surprise demand. After reviewing time, billing and the files, I refused to issue any refund as did the other attorney involved. She also thinks I “betrayed” her in some way. I have no knowledge as to what that relates to.

She has also hacked in and downloaded a number of files from our ftp site. We are investigating that but it doesn’t seem that she got anything that would pose a threat or problem. But some of the files were technically privileged, proprietary or private. We will advise you accordingly. At this moment she seems to have downloaded mostly articles, book contents and public records documents.

At this point we will notify law enforcement and the Florida Bar to get guidance on our next steps.

Please address any inquiries about this incident to neilfgarfield@hotmail.com.

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