Shefali Shah: Family isn't COVID-19 positive, FB account hacked

Bollywood actor Shefali Shah recently cleared the air saying multiple news that states her family being affected by coronavirus are fake. She further stated that her social media handle has also been hacked.

Mumbai: Actor Shefali Shah on Tuesday said her Facebook account has been hacked and that details of "her family getting coronavirus," posted by the hacker, are absolutely false.

"I want to say that I'm absolutely fine. And dealing with this entire situation as well as everyone else is dealing with it. dealing. I'm fine and I would never think of something so drastically negative. All of us at home are fine and safe... we are not corona positive as was one of the things that was written in my post. (By god knows who.)," Shefali wrote.

The actor also thanked people for reaching out to her.

"My FB account was hacked last night and I woke up to a flurry of messages of concern of care of people reaching out and saying wonderful things to me and saying that if I need to talk I should call. Some people even shared their telephone numbers. These are people I've met, probably never met or met briefly, or occasionally sometime somewhere. of them and all of them just showed care and concern," she added.

Shefali further continued, saying: "A lot of them in fact also said this doesn't sound like you it's not a positive voice and it just doesn't sound like you and we are hoping your account (not good) but rather hacked than you ever saying something like this. Because you're valuable and precious... Thank you all."

"Thank you so much for reaching out and being there... it means a lot to me," she concluded.

With inputs from IANS.