Businesses often leverage social media to communicate with their customers, but a security issue on Facebook has left a restaurant in Ooltewah facing a hacking attack.
According to WGAL, hackers steal thousands of Facebook accounts every day.
Whistlestop has not yet recovered from a hacking attack on Facebook that occurred in early September.
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Social media helps businesses, and in this case restaurants, connect employees with their community. The restaurant community in Ooltewah has given so much love and support to the employees, that it would be overwhelming to not be able to communicate with them. The personal email account associated with the business account was hacked and all passwords were changed.
“We couldn’t do anything about it at all. We couldn’t even go and tell our customers that we had been breached.”
At some point, the hacker allowed Ball to restore the page. However, she says she has limited access as an administrator, raising concerns that she could lose control of the page at any time.
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Employees also have a hard time staying in sync with the operations after the hack.
Source: newschannel9.com
