Ugandan comedian, Anne Kansiime was forced to start a new Instagram account after her account with over 250,000 followers got hacked.
It looks like the Facebook hackers are slowly making home on Instagram with the recent number of celebrities being hacked on there.
“Someone hacked into my IG account. I had over 250k followers. I got a call from a friend asking what was wrong with my account. I went to the account and it was showing that i followed zero and had zero followers and the profile picture is gone.My account was a virgin account” Kansiime posted.
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Kansiime says that the hackers caused her to panic as if she had lost something so dear to her yet it was just a social media account.
She suspects that it is someone from her team.
Zari Hassan’s account was also hacked and the hackers are demanding for 4000usd.
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