Social media platforms are leaving victims with devastating losses.
ST. LOUIS — Cybersecurity breaches have increased this year. Even strong passwords and two-factor authentication aren’t enough anymore.
Syndi Sills isn’t your average social media user. As an IT director at a law firm, she understands online security.
“I’ve become a nonstop security cop. That’s what I call myself because it just never stops,” she said.
She’s also run two charities from her home in Florissant for six years. Last December, her world changed when scammers hijacked her personal account on Facebook, owned by parent company Meta, leaving her locked out of her charity pages. She had a 23-character password and two-factor authentication.
“It’s just so sad,” she said. “As big as a company that Facebook is, you would think that they would care about their people and that they would want to keep everybody safe,” said Sills.
Her story is shockingly common. A Reddit communitycalled ‘Facebook Disabled Me’ has 19,000 members. They’re people from around the …