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Cyber hackers holding shop owner to ransom
MEN on Sunday
|June 30, 2024
Criminals demand cash after hijacking Instagram account of clothing boutique
A SMALL business owner has told how hackers have hijacked her shop's Instagram account and are holding it to ransom.
Cyber criminals sent Sacha Lees, owner of Stylejunky boutique in Sale, messages out of the blue demanding EUR1,000 to regain access to her account.
Sacha, 52, has spent 10 years building her 26,000 followers and says it's the 'main source' of attracting customers. So when the account suddenly disappeared she said takings 'plummeted.
She said: "We are a small independent business. Instagram is the main source of getting customers to shop with us and we built up a really solid following.
This story is from the June 30, 2024 edition of MEN on Sunday.
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