Liuba Shevchuk

Affiliated media: RISE Moldova, Journalist

Incident date: February 21, 2018

Attack type:

• Identity theft / phishing / doxxing

Who attacked: Non-authorities

Source: Media Azi

Location: Moldova, Chisinau

Additional information:

After RISE published a video-teaser on their Facebook page of an investigation of potential fraudsters with the help of the CARITATE Foundation, the main page of the crowd-funding site Caritate.md displayed a picture of the Journalist Liuba Shevchuk with the caption "We are asking for her help". The co-founder of the Foundation Svetlana Saynsus explained, that she was redirecting people in need to this journalist. Later Svetlana Saynsus continued to intimidate the journalist on social media, using explicit language