Losing your personal particulars to hackers can lead to financial losses, heartaches, loss of reputation - and sometimes friends, too.
IT starts out so innocently. A simple vote request by an acquaintance for a competition on Facebook; one click and law student Sharlyn J. discovers she has been hacked and locked out of all her social media accounts emails, Facebook, Twitter, Skype and MSN Messenger.
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