Taruna Aswani’s photos, videos were hacked.
An Indian-origin woman in the US has been hailed as a hero on Facebook after she decided to take on a person who hacked into her personal account and accessed all her private photos and videos.
Instead of acceding to the demands of the hacker, Taruna Aswani decided to fight him after he tried to blackmail her threatening to make the photos and videos public.
In the Facebook post on her timeline, Aswani said that a person hacked her cloud backup and accessed personal photos and videos. Then he sent her an e-mail threatening that he would send the pictures to her friends and family if she did not fulfill his demand which was to ‘excite’ him.
“All I am saying is if you want me to keep quiet on this and don’t let the world (social media, Workplace,family, and friends) know then you have to excite me… I have access to your all your friends/social media.and family and co-workers…” the hacker wrote in the mail.
Realizing the trouble, Aswani posted a Facebook note addressing her friends and family members describing the entire story. She has requested everyone to help her identify the hacker and has posted the screenshots of the e-mail sent by him.
“I have in the last 24 hours received 2 emails from someone that claims to know me that has hacked into my google cloud backup. He has been threatening to release some private pictures and videos of me to my friends, family, and colleagues,” Taruna Aswani says on Facebook.
“As embarrassing as the videos may be (they were sent to my boyfriend at the time) I choose to stand up to this man. Instead of cowering down to his requests, I do this so that other women may take a lesson to stand up to bullies and low life’s like this and may get the confidence to stand up as well in case he is known to us and is targeting all of us, but we’re either too scared, ashamed or clueless in how to manage or handle such situations,” she says.
The post shared on October 22, has received over 17,000 reactions and more than 3,800 shares. Several people have commented on the post appreciating her guts and extending help to identify the hacker and put him behind bars.