RTL and ntv presenter Birgit von Bentzel was the victim of blackmailers.
She didn't pay.
Now the strangers have carried out their threat.
The
Instagram account of
Birgit von Bentzel
was deleted.
Blackmailers
hacked
the
RTL and ntv presenter's
account
.
She did not respond
to the stranger's request
and then their threat came true.
Munich - For
RTL and n-tv
is
Birgit von Bentzel
almost daily in front of the camera.
But suddenly you can no longer find any private pictures of the sports presenter online.
Everything is gone on Instagram *.
No photos, no story * and only eleven followers *.
Behind this is a nasty
hacker attack
.
“You're kind of
a little helpless
and I'm also
a little scared
.
What they're doing is criminal, ”said
the 51-year-old
talking to
RTL
about what happened.
A
dubious email appeared in her mailbox
last
week
.
Her
Instagram account is blocked
and if she does not respond within two hours, everything will be deleted, allegedly by the blackmailers.
Birgit von Bentzel
ignored the letter and then the strangers got serious.
RTL presenter nasty blackmailed: Strangers demand 200 euros from Birgit von Bentzel
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Sports presenter Birgit von Bentzel did not allow herself to be blackmailed: The hackers then deleted her Instagram profile.
© Henning Kaiser / picture alliance / dpa
"It took me a moment to realize, sh ***,
this is real and they are blackmailing me now,
" explains
von Bentzel
.
You have received more emails.
Including the request
to pay
200 euros in Bitcoins
to the blackmailers.
Then she would have got her account back.
Birgit von Bentzel: Instagram account hacked by blackmailers - "I was practically thrown out, dead"
“Then I'll be on my Instagram account and
it didn't exist anymore,
” she experienced the nasty surprise, “I was
kind of kicked out, dead
.
It's black, you can't find me anymore.
Everything has been deleted
. ”
itself does not want to and cannot help,
the moderator herself would find
an
advertisement to the police to
be excessive.
Of course she has now changed her passwords on all other websites as well.
Birgit von Bentzel
is not the first celebrity to fall victim to this scam.
Instagram accounts are constantly being hijacked by stars and companies.
The required sums rarely exceed 300 euros.
The blackmailers expect a higher willingness to pay as a result.
Experts warn, however,
never to transfer money to the unknown
.
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