News media owner loses access to 10 years’ work as hackers ramp up attacks

Andrew Banks

March 21, 2022 1:50

Kelly Noble’s SA lifestyle and news website Glam Adelaide was targeted by cyber hackers, who took over its Instagram account, which has around 115,000 followers, and demanded more than $2000 for its return.

“It’s devastating,’ said Noble. “We lost access to 10 years of work, thousands of hours and more than 21,000 posts promoting SA destinations and businesses.

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Andrew Banks

Andrew is an editor and journalist with over 27 years' experience, working across publications including news.com.au, The Sunday Telegraph and The Australian newspaper.

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Australian Cyber Security Centre Business Australia Cybersecurity Glam Adelaide hackers Kelly Noble News Phil Parisis SME website

1 COMMENTS

Josh 22 Mar 22

If their Instagram account was taken over by “hackers”, could they not just have contacted Instagram to have their access restored? I understand it’s a massive pain and blow to a small business, but surely that wouldn’t have caused them to lose 10 years worth of work across 21,000 posts?!

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