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Reggae Star Bushman’s Verified Instagram, Facebook Hacked By “Wicked People”

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Just over a year after a Turkish hacker, took control of Bounty Killer’s verified Instagram account, deleted his videos and photos and began using the page to sell shoes, his Reggae compatriot Bushman, has suffered the same fate, at the hands of another Turkish cyber-punk.

The Call the Hearse singer’s Instagram page, albeit not being used to sell shoes, was infiltrated and taken over on Friday, by what appears to be a young man bearing the name Olmak istediğiniz yerdeyim~.

So far, the Turk has been having the time of his life.  He deleted all of Bushman’s posts, replaced his profile photo and made one post of apparently himself singing, and even went Live last night.

Bushman’s page bio now sports links to two other IG accounts, one of which bears images of a Turkish soldier, apparently at a military training exercise.

Some of Bushman’s fans who realized what had happened hurled abuses at the hacker, demanding that he release the artist’s page.   However, their words have been drowned out by the numerous comments in the Turkish language that the page has been getting.

The Nyah Man took to Twitter shortly after the incident, to reveal to his fans, in his usual calm fashion that he had been hacked, not only on Instagram, but on Facebook.

“Listen up! My IG Account was hacked. If you follow me there, don’t interact with no one until we work thru the steps to get it back.   Wicked people,” he wrote on Friday.

In his second post on Saturday morning, which included a short accompanying video clip, which he urged his fans to share/retweet, he also gave additional details that suspicious-sounding persons had been contacting him claiming they were experts who could remedy the situation.

“Blessed love to all my fans and my followers.  Yeah, you know, I have been hacked, my IG page – my Facebook page as well.  Hacked.  Currently me and my team working on it.  People been contacting me, we been getting contacts; people been acting as if they are IG specialists asking me for my information, but it won’t happen. So just bear with us; we workin on it, yeah.  And until we get back to you, just know she Rastafari live, a di Nyah man Bushman,” the St. Thomas native said.

The last superstar out of Jamaica to be hacked on Instagram was Bounty Killer in late November 2019, this after the scammer renamed his page “Enes Denier” and began a shoes selling spree.

A week later however, the Coppershot artiste had regained control of his page, after being forced to create a temporary account 1unogeneral, by virtue of the hacker’s shenanigans.    He had also used the opportunity to thank the officials at  Instagram Support Team whom he said “worked tirelessly on this tedious matter to get it resolved”, and Solid Agency’s Sharon Burke for her efforts in retrieving his page.

The Seaview Gardens native had also accused one of Jamaica’s mobile companies as the area from where all the problems stemmed. He said then, that their workers were seemingly collaborating with and facilitating the racketeering with the hackers by giving out customers’ phone numbers. Bounty said he came to that conclusion because he had changed his password numerous times before his page, which was certified by Instagram, was hacked, and had also turned on its two-way authentication email or text code, which “has to be received before password could be changed.”