Rise of social media hacking devastating creative small businesses
A timely warning for all creative professionals: social media account hacking is rising, and your small business may be more vulnerable than you think.
Creatives can face massive losses if their social media accounts are hacked, often with little recourse to reinstate their data. Photo: Magnus Mueller, Pexels.
Hacking, scamming, phishing, cyber fraud… These terms were once only vague notions to anyone other than tech workers.
But they are now very familiar parts of our everyday lexicon as our online lives continue to swirl with potential criminal activity.
In the creative sector, arts freelancers and small businesses are especially vulnerable to these threats, as hackers seek to target smaller entities whose security systems lack the robust protocols of their larger corporate counterparts.
ArtsHub's Arts Feature Writer Jo Pickup is based in Perth. An arts writer and manager, she has worked as a journalist and broadcaster for media such as the ABC, RTRFM and The West Australian newspaper, contributing media content and commentary on art, culture and design. She has also worked for arts organisations such as Fremantle Arts Centre, STRUT dance, and the Aboriginal Arts Centre Hub of WA, as well as being a sessional arts lecturer at The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).
