David Bridges
A local nonprofit’s Facebook page was hacked and it put the animal rescue’s program at risk. But, 5 On Your Side was able to reach out to Facebook, who has finally helped the animal rescue regain control of their page.
Reporter: Keely ArthurPhotographer: Richard Adkins
a local animal rescue that lost control of its facebook page to a hacker has control of it again after a five year sidestepped in W. R. E. S. Keely Arthur has the rescues heartfelt. Thank you Laura Gerhard once again has control of the Friends of Rocky Mount Animals facebook page. You don’t understand how much this means to be in May. She says hackers took over the page, cutting off a major source of fundraising for the rescue. Gerhardt also says the hacker started collecting adoption fees for dogs that weren’t really available. Five on your side, worked for nearly two months to get her control of the page back. Gerhardt posted this thanking five on your side for getting the page back and there are some steps you can take right now to prevent this from happening to you, mainly get two factor authentication and logging alerts. If your pages hacked though, you want to go to facebook dot com slash hacked keely Arthur five on your side.
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