Turns out though, it was the former employer of Catalano’s husband doing the watching. Following the online uproar, Suffolk County police explained that “detectives received a tip from a Bay Shore-based computer company regarding suspicious computer searches conducted by a recently released employee.” Apparently Catalano’s husband had been searching for the terms “pressure cooker bombs” and “backpacks” in his work computer and his former employers became paranoid they could have a terrorist in their midst.

Catalano defended her work, updating her post to point out that that the police never said they showed up at her doorstep because of searches her husband carried out at his former job. They “were led to believe it was solely from searches from within our house,” Catalano wrote.