Dinara Yegeubayeva

Affiliated media: YouTube channel DINARION, Blogger

Incident date: March 19, 2023

Attack type:

Identity theft / phishing / doxxing

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Location: Kazakhstan, Almaty, Almaty

Additional information:

The author and host of the YouTube channel DINARION Dinara Yegeubayeva published links on Facebook to two fake pages created on her behalf on Instagram and Facebook. The pages published several identical posts, illustrated with a collage with an image of Yegeubayeva and the former president of Kazakhstan, as well as bank card details for donations. According to the journalist, she had nothing to do with the mailing about the campaign on social networks thanking her for donations, and the social networks and Kaspi Gold card did not belong to her. The journalist asked her followers to complain about the fake pages. After the subscribers complained, both pages were blocked.