The Facebook page for Kabartrenggalek.com had been hacked and taken over by hackers.

Description

On March 9, 2023, an unknown person took over the kabartrenggalek.com's Facebook account and logged out from the device of the admin.

On March 15 2023, the account had not been successfully recovered, the Kabartrenggalek Facebook page which was being hacked, changed its name to Shop Shan 4 Mua. After that, the Trenggalek news media team lost access to the Facebook page and could not take over the Facebook account.

There is some strong evidence that the Facebook account belongs to Kabartrenggalek.com, including the media logo still attached, including the cover photo. Then the information listed on the Facebook page profile still contains information belonging to the media Kabartrenggalek.com. including, email admin@kabartrenggalek.com, Instagram account@kabar_trenggalek, and Twitter account @trenggalek which is still under the control of the team and has access to these social media accounts. Kabartrenggalek.com media IT team has contacted support from Facebook meta. However, the message received was considered only a formal answer, which did not provide a clear solution.

Information
Number of attacked persons or entities related to media
1
Do they work as freelance or media?
Yes
Position in media
Status of journalists
Gender
Data not collected
Country
East Java
Full name or name of group
Unidentified
Background (state actor or non state actor)
Gender
Attack mention about gender background/sexual wording?
Unknown
Date of incident
Type of incident
Hacking