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In 2009, Scott McGready stumbled on a massive phishing scam targeting his company’s email server. Thousands of emails bombarded the company in a short period of time. They all came from the same source, pretending to be someone or something they weren’t in order to lure people into clicking on shady links and giving up …
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Well, now I’ve seen it all! And I can safely say this after seeing this TikTok video that went viral in a big way because it showed a man using editing software at a self-checkout kiosk at Target. What the heck is going on here?!?! Photo Credit: TikTok The TikTok user is known as the …
Do you know who’s watching WandaVision on your dime? One Los Angeles based creator recently found out that a clumsy interloper was trying to use her Disney+ account after the hacker created their own profile. The video comes from user Amanda (@swellentertainment), and has garnered more than 13,000 views. @swellentertainment bot le getting hacked AGAIN …
Temu has been steadily gaining popularity as an affordable online marketplace, but according to one woman’s warning, people should avoid the site altogether. In a viral video that has amassed 2.1 million views, TikTok user A M B E R (@allthingsambur) explains why she thinks the site is dangerous. @allthingsambur Straight sus wtf ♬ original …
A woman’s recent struggle with Airbnb over having her home’s false listing taken down has drawn a combined nearly 1 million views on TikTok, where she says it took speaking to four customer service representatives to finally solve the issue. Posted by user Katie (@hurrikatie), the three-part series of videos sharing her family’s struggles with …
A Sephora customer says her account was hacked, leading to the hacker redeeming her 4,000 rewards points. In her video, which has drawn over 828,000 views, TikToker @aheatedmess says she received an email confirmation for an order placed with a shipping address that she did not recognize. “I immediately changed my password to my account,” …
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Photo Credit: TikTok Things continue to get creepier as the days go by in terms of technology, and here’s yet another example of someone’s privacy being compromised in a major way. A woman shared a video on TikTok where she talked to viewers about an Owley baby monitor camera experience that went haywire. She said …
Source: Getty Images According to this TikToker, her baby monitor might have been hacked. Of course, it could also be haunted. Here’s what she did to fix it. According to Kurin Adele’s TikTok bio, she is your “crunchy mom friend.” The momfluencer uses her social platform to educate folks about what it’s like raising kids …
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After purchasing a baby monitor camera to keep an eye on her son, TikTok user Kurin (@kurinadele) says her camera was hacked when her password was exposed through a data leak, with no notification from the company. In her video that has drawn over 3.8 million views as of Sunday, ‘crunchy’ mom content creator Kurin …
Source: Getty Images Donald Trump recently returned to Instagram, and his posts are so strange that some people assume the former president was hacked. What’s going on? In the aftermath of the Jan. 6 insurrection, Donald Trump was kicked off of almost all major social media platforms. The move limited the former president’s reach, but …
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According to ZeroFox, “social media account takeovers are an increasingly common occurrence, affecting the likes of politicians, celebrities, brands, other high-profile accounts, and even the heads of social networks themselves.” This is why we love a two-step verification. Sadly, even an influencer can get a social media account ripped right out from under them, putting …
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Getty Image Sometimes, it happens: A celebrity’s Twitter account gets compromised. That happened to Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner recently, but the whole experience turned out to be not that bad… “wholesome,” even, per Zauner. On April 4, the Japanese Breakfast Twitter account (@Jbrekkie) shared a photo of Zauner standing by a shelf containing copies of …
