Simona Halep’s Instagram account hacked. What messages have hackers posted?

By Romania Journal Last updated Jul 24, 2019

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Tennis champion Simona Halep‘s Instagram account has been hacked on Tuesday night. Hackers have posted on her behalf several messages asking her fans to give them money or presenting fake opportunities to earn money.

Simona’s has 1.3 million fans on Instagram.

Hackers posted several messages on Simona’s Instagram page, such as:

“If you want to make money taking surveys Swipe up! They pay 150$ for the first survey you take, worked for me so it definitely can work for you!“

“She literally just one 5 free iPhone X’s! Swipe up and follow the rules to get yours today, hurry only 100 left”.

“Hey, can anybody help me? I’m stuck in Switzerland and my bank account is not working here. I need 500$, I am willing to pay 1,500$ by the weekend”.

Simona warned her fans on Twitter that her Instagram page had been hacked.

“Please ignore the hackers who are currently having fun on my Instagram account. We are aware and @instagram are working on it. Hopefully will be solved asap.”

After several hours, the problem was solved, with the Romanian tennis player posting a Twitter message announcing the issue had been solved.

“All cleaned up“, read a post on Halep’s Twitter account later on.

Simona Halep won the Wimbledon trophy on July 13.

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