In a shocking incident, Pooja Bedi became a victim of a ransomware attack with the attackers demanding she pay off an undisclosed sum in order to restore her access to her company’s e-commerce website “happysoul.in.”
The actress filed a complaint with the Goa police. She lives and works from Goa along with her husband and have said that the attackers have threatened to use her site to sell narcotic drugs if she doesn’t pay up.
“Dear @DGP_Goa my ecommerce website http://happysoul.in HACKED AGAIN last night & this time they state if i don’t pay ransom they will sell DRUGS on my website. I have registered [an] FIR in Old Goa Police Cyber Cell last week but no action from Cops. My company regd in Goa @goacm,” the actress said in a tweet.
Dear @DGP_Goa my ecommerce website https://t.co/zjGS86eyQX HACKED AGAIN last night & this time they state if i don’t pay ransom they will sell DRUGS on my website. I have registered FIR in old goa police cyber cell last week but no action from cops.
My company regd in Goa @goacm pic.twitter.com/X6UZQmASkZ— Pooja Bedi (@poojabeditweets) October 5, 2020
In a separate tweet, the actress revealed that it wasn’t the first time that her site was the target of attacks.
Dear @GoDaddyHelp your team is NOT cooperating with our team for my hacked e-commerce website https://t.co/zjGS86eyQX
Despite my deluxe security on your server & SSL the hacker hacked AGAIN yesterday made ransom demands threatening 2 sell my data& sell DRUGS on my site@GoDaddy— Pooja Bedi (@poojabeditweets) October 5, 2020
A complaint has been registered with the Cyber Cell of the Goa Police.
