Brisbane lingerie store falls victim to lewd Facebook hack
May 25, 2015 by admin
Filed under Latest Lingerie News
A Brisbane lingerie store has fallen victim to a Facebook hack, with thousands of customers now being bombarded with distasteful images.
Big Girls Don’t Cry Anymore owner Karen Edbrooke says she was “devastated” when the lewd images began appearing on the store’s Facebook page.
“I’ve got 39,000 customers who I’ve had for 23 years, this was showing up on their news feeds,” Ms Edbrooke told 9NEWS.
Hackers have taken over the store’s Facebook page, posting rude comments and links to unsavoury articles up to four times an hour.
When customers click on the links, it creates spam messages on their pages too.
Ms Edbrooke is no longer able to access her business’s page and is powerless to stop it.
“You cannot phone Facebook, there is no Australian office – for a corporate company to have that many customers they should have policies in place to help small business,” she said.
“It is so hard out there at the moment.”
Facebook has been notified but the problem could take weeks to rectify.
Business experts say it is an unfortunate sign of the times.
“There’s obviously a list of other businesses this is happening to and they’re (Big Girls Don’t Cry Anymore) probably at the bottom of the list being a small Aussie retailer,” Gary Mortimer from QUT Business School said.
The hack could not have come at a worst time for Ms Embrooke, who has just launched a new campaign to tell customers she was moving locations – paying thousands for online ads.
Mr Mortimer says small businesses that rely on revenue from an online source need to invest back into robust security systems.
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