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'Hackers leaked intimate photos after my laptop was stolen'

A Spanish filmmaker turned the cameras on herself and made a "sextortion diary" after being blackmailed.

Exhausted, out of options and refusing to pay up, Franquesa eventually decides to upload the images to her own social media - a horrible last resort, but one which took away the hackers' power. The fact that the hacker ceased contact shortly after Franquesa uploaded the images suggests it was someone who was already following her when she switched her accounts to private after the first blackmail attempt - but she still doesn't know who. Mark Adams of Business Doc Europe described it as "a powerful and provocative real-life story, prescient in reflecting the unhappy reality facing those people who are forced to deal with the awful behaviour of unscrupulous hackers".

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