Jonatan Cerrada has just had a very unpleasant experience: his Instagram account was hacked! If this mishap seems harmless on the surface, it can quickly turn into a nightmare for the users concerned, who very often struggle to regain their access and sometimes even see their identities hijacked. Worn out by his fight against this piracy, the 38 year old singer came out of the silence in story this Monday, December 11, having visibly recovered his account. “Waking up in the middle of the night… Going to Insta to check I haven’t lost access again. This story really messed up my brain.“, wrote soberly the one who won the first edition of the show In search of the New Star in 2003.
Interviewed by the Belgian media RTF at the end of November, the star from Liège explained this unfortunate incident in detail: “Suddenly one morning, three weeks ago, I was logged out of my Instagram account. I tried everything possible to log back in but I was denied access. I found it very strange. I received confirmation that my account had been hacked when all its content was deleted and photos of a young girl were added, but the account name remained the same. Since then, my account has been used to promote all kinds of profiles.” After multiple attempts to contact the hacker, Jonatan Cerrada turned to the Instagram help center: “My only way to make things happen is to contact Instagram daily by sending emails.“ So it seems that this solution worked, at the cost of long days of waiting…
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What happens to Jonatan Cerrada?
Jonatan Cerrada may have moved away from the front of the stage, but he nonetheless remains driven by his passion for music. The former candidate of the New star became singing and theater teacher at the AICOM school in Brussels, where students in the Pro Musical Comedy course are trained. At the same time, the artist explores his talents as an actor since he performed, at the end of 2022, in the play Cougar who can! In France. If he released a new single in 2021 called Staythe singer however refused this year to participate in the show New Star, 20 years old: “What I do is theater, reviews in a show, I give a lot of singing lessons… My life is elsewhere, it is not at all media“, he justified on Instagram. With her husband Théo, married in 2014, the interpreter of I wanted to tell you that I’m waiting for you also became the father of little Milo, born in December 2019.
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