Posting your life on the web is commonplace. But it surely shortly turns right into a nightmare when your life will get hijacked.
Singapore actress Eleanor Lee posted on Instagram Tales on March 29 concerning the fears she’s had since her TikTok account was first hacked in December 2021.
She defined that the account was hacked a 3rd time regardless of her utilizing an authenticator, and hackers additionally tried to get into her Instagram account, amongst others.
The 22-year-old, who’s additionally Mediacorp host Quan Yi Fong‘s daughter, wrote: “Each morning, I all the time get up feeling scared that my different social media accounts are being hacked.
“Having to verify continually each minute. It’s actually getting on my nerves and actually affecting my very own social life as I don’t dare to place belief in anybody or any app”.
Dispirited, she additionally mentioned: “As content material creators, you’ll all the time be actually pleased with the trouble you set into your posts. And when my account will get hacked, I really feel actually upset. Like all my exhausting work is misplaced and gone and worst of all, stolen and deleted.”
She added she additionally obtained a warning the hackers may additionally have entry to her textual content messages.
In December final yr, the hackers tried to blackmail her US$500 (S$680) in return for her TikTok account. She famously responded: ” It’s okay. I don’t need it again. Thanks.”
Eleanor, who’s primarily based in China, added that the hackers are nonetheless sending her DMs to get her consideration, considering she doesn’t know concerning the hacks. She has additionally made a police report.
Whereas she had stayed quiet concerning the hacks, she is now talking up about it to face up for victims of hacking and blackmail.
She suggested her followers to disregard emails or messages about their accounts being reported and asking customers to sign up to attraction. Although the notifications look actual, they’re in all probability not, Eleanor mentioned.
Eleanor talked about that she is not going to be utilizing TikTok for some time as a result of the “hackers simply received’t cease”, and can as an alternative be posting updates on Twitter, Instagram, Douyin and Xiaohongshu.
This text was first printed in AsiaOne.
Supply: Her World
