“But I didn’t receive any response.” He refused to pay the hacker, and ended up contacting Italo Botelho, CEO of Digital Solutions, a company specialized in “protecting and recovering digital access.” Botelho, who claims to have recovered over 20,000 hacked accounts, charged Baltar 200 reais ($40) and got his account back in about 15 days. “I tried everything I could with Meta ,” Baltar told Rest of World. The hacker then sent Baltar a WhatsApp message demanding a ransom of roughly 5,000 reais (about $1,006). The person who had hacked it started posting on his behalf, trying to scam Baltar’s followers. Suddenly, the 48-year-old radio host from Rio de Janeiro found himself locked out of his account. The moment Anderson Baltar clicked on a link he received via direct message on Instagram, he knew he’d made a big mistake.