Zaure Mirzakhodzhaeva

Affiliated media: Journalist

Incident date: March 2, 2021

Attack type:

• Breaking into email / social media accounts / computer / smartphone

Who attacked: Unknown sources

Source: Journalist's Facebook page

Location: Kazakhstan, Shymkent, Shymkent

Additional information:

Zaure Mirzakhodzhaeva informed a colleague that her Facebook account may have been hacked, as she could not publish posts and articles. Through a colleague, Zaure warned her followers: «Everything that will be published from today and until the problems with the "foreign invasion" are fixed, is not written by me». While Zaure’s colleague was publishing a post about this, dubious messages and letters began to arrive from Mirzakhodzhaeva’s account.