Online game opened Alberta mom's accounts to hackers

A Cochrane, Alta., mother is warning others after spending the last eight months trying to recover online accounts that were hacked after downloading a gaming app for her daughter.

A Cochrane, Alta., mother is warning others after spending the last eight months trying to recover online accounts that were hacked after downloading a gaming app for her daughter.

Susanne Garman's nine-year-old daughter asked to download Wolf Online 2 to her iPad.

"Her favourite thing in the world is animals, live animals, game animals, she loves to play app games," she said.

Her mother downloaded the game to her daughter's device from the Apple App Store in February but says she never would have expected the nightmare that followed shortly after installing it.

"As a protective mom I ended up downloading it onto my iPad as well and we would play together," she said.

The game is interactive and Garman became suspicious of some of the other online gamers who would approach them online.

"There was a time where there was a screen sharing almost, my character dispersed and he was telling us 'don't move,'" explained Garman.