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Conflict Incident Report

ISF arrests suspected extortionist who hacked women's social media accounts

Date of incident: 
December 21, 2018
Death toll: 
0persons
Number of Injured: 
0persons
Actors/Parties Involved: 
Internal Security Forces (ISF)
Lebanese Civilians

The Internal Security Forces has arrested a man suspected of extorting several women online.

The man, identified as M.G., a Lebanese national born in 1992, was arrested after a woman filed a complaint to the ISF about someone hacking her social media accounts and extorting her.

This security incident was mapped according to the closest possible location.
Primary category: 
Arrest/Detention
Secondary Category: 
Gender Based Violence [inc. sexual violence]
Classification of conflict (primary): 
Individual acts of violence
Violent incidents which do not have a specific or a known political agenda but are caused by the general proliferation of weapons, of trained and untrained soldiers or militants, by the general inefficiency of the Justice system, and past-traditions and histories of violence within society.