This is a small announcement to let people know that my instagram account was taken over by a foreign individual. It came as a phishing attempt through email that was regretfully successful.
Upon that breach the hacker changed my username, email and phone number and made it impossible for me to log in and sent me a message for a ransom for my account back. I imagined how these attempts go. First they ask you for a bit of money and then they take it all. I really doubt they leave you alone at any point after that. So, I just blocked the person and alerted instagram about the account and they are taking action to have the individual removed and the account, if possible, recovered to me, if not deleted.
Please be aware of this and learn from my mistake. Although this is not such a huge loss as I’m not an ally or fan of digital social media, it’s still brings security matters to high attention and it can become quite the stressing situation.
Other than that, please expect me to create more updates through the webpage as my sole avenue of official digital interaction.