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SHE has no idea who they were or why they would target her but Sasha Mathers feels violated by Facebook hackers.

The mother of two was on a family holiday in Bali when she was woken by an early morning phone call from her sister telling her that hackers had hijacked her Facebook account.

The hackers used her account to contact her stepbrother Joel Stupka to tell him she and her family had been kidnapped at gunpoint and needed money for their release. When Joel asked how much money, the hackers replied: "How much have you got?"

Mr Stupka realised something was wrong when the hackers told him Ms Mathers's "cell phone" had been stolen. He knew cell phone was the American term for a mobile phone.

Ms Mathers, from Box Hill in Melbourne, had become one of a growing number of Australians targeted by Facebook hackers. Hackers have also been attacking Facebook memorial pages.