India: Hansika Motwani has caught herself in the eye of the storm when her Twitter handle got leaked and her pictures were leaked online.

Although she later took to her Twitter handle itself to confirm the news to her fans, Hansika has been at the receiving end of a lot of hate and trolls, reports the timesnownews.com.

Finally opening up about the entire incident, Hansika gets candid with TOI. 

Speaking about when she realised her phone's been hacked, Hansika reveals, ‘I noticed that something was wrong with my phone ever since went to the United States a few weeks ago. But it came as a huge shock to me when I realised that my private information and pictures have been leaked into the public domain.’

These pictures were taken four years ago and some of them have been smartly morphed by the hackers. I soon figured that my Twitter account has also been hacked and I then alerted my technical team to deal with it.’

Speaking about all the negativity that has been surrounding her, Hansika adds, ‘It was extremely disheartening. To deal with the embarrassment of your private pictures being leaked (some of them morphed) into the public domain is bad enough, and then to see such comments was really hurtful. Certain people had the gall to say that since I anyway did bikini shoots in the past, what's the big deal if such pictures are leaked?

She goes on to add, ‘I don’t need to seek attention from anybody. Right through my career, I’ve kept a low profile and that reflects in how I conduct myself on social media as well. That’s just who I am as a person. So if someone sitting in the corner of their room wants to say that I’m doing this for attention, I don’t think that such people even deserve a response. I just feel sorry for them.’