Local Influencer FredetteMary is just one of thousands of victims who have had their social media page hijacked by hackers - and many victims say Meta hasn't been any help trying to recover those pages. KaraKenney6
She’s a content creator, influencer, and a contractor paid by Meta.Fredette makes thousands of dollars a month creating content for social media platforms.On April 1, it all came crashing down.
The Identity Theft Resource Center saw a 1,044 percent increase in social media account takeover inquiries from 2020 to 2021. "It's causing significant harm,” said Eva Velasquez, president of the Identity Theft Resource Center, a nonprofit that helps people get their hacked accounts back. “We at ITRC have seen an absolute explosion of social media account takeovers."
WRTV Investigates also asked Scott Shackelford, a cybersecurity expert and professor at IU’s Kelley School of Business, why Meta hasn’t done more to address this problem. “We have the authority to submit subpoenas to Facebook,” said Doug Swetnam, section chief for data privacy and identity theft. “We have a special law enforcement portal we can submit that to but not even the Attorney General has the ability to get anyone on the phone.”Swetnam went on the dark web and found hacked Facebook pages for sale, plus software and instructions on how to hack account.
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