Lil Tay Death Hoax: Meta Confirms Instagram Account Was Hacked

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Lil Tay was capable to get her Instagram relationship backmost with the assistance of societal media institution Meta. After a hacker shared a mendacious connection saying that the teen rapper had died, a spokesperson for Meta confirmed that they’d helped her retrieve the relationship successful a connection to TMZ. In her connection confirming that she was inactive alive, Tay, 14, besides thanked the company, which owns Facebook and Instagram, for helping her regain control.

Just a time aft her decease was reported, Tay revealed that she was inactive live to TMZ, where she revealed she’d been a unfortunate of a hack. She besides said that the culprit hadn’t adjacent utilized her existent sanction successful the statement. “My Instagram relationship was compromised by a 3rd enactment and utilized to dispersed jarring misinformation and rumors regarding me, to the constituent that adjacent my sanction was wrong. My ineligible sanction is Tay Tian, not ‘Claire Hope,’” she said.

Lil Tay revealed she got her relationship backmost with the assistance of Meta. (Lil Tay/Youtube)

At the start, Tay revealed that it had been a hard time pursuing the news. “I privation to marque it wide that my member and I are harmless and alive, but I’m wholly heartbroken, and struggling to adjacent find the close words to say,” she said. “It’s been a precise traumatizing 24 hours.”

Before the teen viral prima spoke out, galore believed Tay had passed erstwhile the since-deleted connection was posted connected her Instagram. “It is with a dense bosom that we stock the devastating quality of our beloved Claire’s abrupt and tragic passing,” the connection said. “During this clip of immense sorrow, we kindly inquire for privateness arsenic we grieve this overwhelming loss, arsenic the circumstances surrounding Claire and her brother’s passing are inactive nether investigation.”

While immoderate fans grieved the teen’s passing, it was revealed that neither Tay’s begetter nor erstwhile manager would corroborate her decease to Insider. The outlet besides reported that determination weren’t immoderate constabulary investigations into her decease successful Los Angeles oregon Vancouver, Canada, contempt the statement’s claims that it was being investigated. Tay came guardant that she was live aft the fact.