Cork Business Owner Starting From Scratch After Insta Hack
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A Cork business owner says she now has to start again, after her company s social media account was hacked.
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Owner Charlene Corkery says she clicked on an e-mail link which looked legitimate. On Sunday, I got a very legitimate looking Instagram message, saying that I need to follow this link, because I ll be banned from my page because of copyright infringement. But basically for playing a song that I wasn t meant to.
Charlene says she feels a little bit silly but believed the e-mail to be real.
Advertisement I was away in Dingle for the weekend and I put an out of office story on my Instagram. Even though we ve a website, we still have a lot of enquiries - message requests - and you want courtesy to say I ll respond to them all on my return . On Sunday, I got a very legitimate looking Instagram message, saying that I need to follow this link, because I ll be banned from my page because of copyright infringement. But basically for playing a song that I wasn t meant to.
Charlene says she feels a little bit silly but believed the e-mail to be real.
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