Social Media Hacking Scams

A couple of articles regarding women who have had their Facebook pages hacked by scammers.

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/how-a-gold-coast-womans-business-vanished-in-an-instant/ar-AAJvmLk?ocid=spartanntp

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An article regarding scammers hacking Instagram accounts.

An article regarding users’ Facebook accounts being hacked by scammers.

This is NOT hacking. This is just userid (typically email address) and password pair being leaked on to the Net.
Once known, various obvious social sites will be tried for logons, and the ransom scam will begin.
So many people make it so easy for scammers, by doing nothing to protect themselves.