An Auckland woman is warning other business owners to secure their social media accounts after her Facebook account was hacked.
Sarah Chant’s personal Facebook account was targeted, and Isis propaganda was posted on it, causing her page to be immediately banned because it breached Facebook’s guidelines.
As a result she lost access to her business Facebook pages, which she had run for more than 13 years, and feared her reputation, and her children’s face-painting business Fab Faces, had been tarnished.
She was unable to contact clients through the page, and the page sat inactive over the summer holiday period, which was a busy time for the business.
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Nelson Brows and Beauty were astounded Facebook did not remove a fake profile that scammed its customers.
She also lost access to her popular New Zealand travel tips page.
“Most of my pages were gone,” she said.
The hackers are targeting personal Facebook users who also had a linked business account, Chant said.
The hackers made themselves an administrator on the user’s business page, and used the credit card details associated with the business page to buy Facebook advertising.
“It’s incredibly stressful,” Chant said.
The credit card attached to her…
