My Sextortion Diary: 'Hackers leaked intimate photos after my laptop was stolen'

A Spanish filmmaker turned the cameras on herself and made a "sextortion diary" after being blackmailed.

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Spanish director Patricia Franquesa was sitting in a café in Madrid when thieves made off with her laptop in 2019.

Three months later, hackers got in touch with her demanding money, threatening to leak the intimate photos she had stored on the device if she didn't pay up.

Franquesa didn't know for sure - and still doesn't - whether the person attempting to extort her was the same one who physically stole the laptop.

But in a situation where victims have such little control, she was able to document the whole episode on film from her perspective as it unfolded.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cmmm75407j9o

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