Cases of hacking Celebrities’ social media accounts are increasing day by day more o in the East African region. Recently, Kenyan singer Jimmy Gait’s Instagram account was hacked and wiped clean by anonymous users and till now, he has never regained int access.
Recently, South African business woman and former wife to Tanzanian flava singer Diamond Platinumz, Zari Hassan also fell a victim to these anonymous users after one of her most followed social media account was hacked.
It was hacked when the mother of five was amidst her daughter’s third birthday celebrations. Her Facebook account is also said to be under the same hackers who are posting nude photos.
Meanwhile, it is not clear whether the hackers gave the mother of five a chance to pay the $4,000 they had demanded from her to get back her account or not. However, her manager, Galston Anthony, had made an official communication via his social media that they were doing their best to restore it.
“Please note @zarithebosslady is being hacked. We doing all we can to fix it. I will go live in 10min in her behalf to give me details,” he posted.
Zari later went live using her daughter Tiffah’s account, thanking her fans and assuring them everything will be fine.
The Ugandan born had over 4.2 million followers on her Instagram page whose bio has then been edited.