“If you want to recover your community, it’s 1500 euros”: the scourge of blackmail to hacked TikTok accounts

“I was tempted to pay because it was impossible for me to start from scratch or abandon social networks”, confesses Reda H. alias @luna_loiseau on TikTok. The young man with nearly 750,000 subscribers was the victim of an extortion attempt on the hacked account that is currently flourishing among cybercriminals. After a stint on television, the young man from Gonesse (Val-d’Oise) received an email in the colors of TikTok a few weeks ago. The platform offers him to certify his account where he successfully posts videos of his life with two parrots.