A Turkish hacker blackmails an Israeli fashion designer

Local wedding dress designer Idan Cohen is amazed to find that his Instagram page has been hacked and despite repeated inquiries to the company, there is no one interested in helping. He now has to pay thousands of dollars to return the bill to him: "It does me crazy image damage, I lose a job like this"

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Eden Ben Zaken, Idan Cohen (Photo: PR Idan Cohen, PR)

Earlier this month, Galit Gutman's Instagram account was hacked by a Turkish hacker who took over. The hacker, not very sophisticated to note, brought in the story H * cked Turkey Hello Israel and demanded a $ 100 symbolic amount from Gutman if she wanted to regain control of her Instagram page. After a few hours the post was removed from the network and the whole thing dissipated.

A similar, but far more disturbing story has happened recently to the wedding dress designer and evening era Cohen. A few weeks ago, Cohen's business account was breached, even by those who identify themselves as a Turkish hacker, only that, unlike Gutman, they wouldn't let go so easily. The main photo on the Instagram page has been replaced with a stranger's photo and the last four pictures are not at all related to Cohen's business. Additionally, the designer no longer has access to view the page data,
In posts and even his bio category has been completely changed.

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Idan Cohen's official Instagram page hacked by a Turkish hacker (Instagram screenshot)

Idan Cohen, Exclusive Fashion (Photo: Exclusive Fashion, PR)

With all due respect to Gutman's momentary terror, Cohen's nightmare is real and translates to immediate livelihoods: "This breakthrough is doing me crazy image damage," says Cohen, "My business can't contain it, so much work is shutting down Instagram today. I have 143,000 followers, most of the appointments scheduled are with women who come to my studio through Insta. "

Cohen, 31, who moved his studio to Rishon Lezion six months ago and even said goodbye to his business partner, said he tried to contact Instagram executives in Israel several times to help him with the crisis, but replied in a negative response: "I have helped some professionals to help me in correspondence with the responsible parties. On Instagram and explain to them that they have hacked me to the page. Their only response was that they didn't see the page being hacked. I don't understand it so much.

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Idan Cohen, Exclusive Fashion (Photo: Exclusive Fashion, PR)

Cohen, for his part, does not intend to give in to the blackmail. The hacker is demanding $ 2,000 for his account, if Cohen wants to regain control of his business account and at the same time sends clear messages: "I have a lot of voice messages with him and it's very clear that this is against an anti-Semitic background," Cohen notes, "he has made some exaggerated statements about Israel." The next step is to come out in an orderly lawsuit, "I'm working with my lawyers on a worldwide Instagram lawsuit. If the page doesn't come back to me in the next few days it will completely progress to a lawsuit."

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"It hurts my business," Idan Cohen with Chen Rosenblum, Pnina's daughter, on her wedding day (Photo: PR)

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