The Australian singer and performer, who is best known in Malaysia for her work under the stage name Cassidy La Creme, saw a notification from"I was going to dismiss it and then I thought no, I haven't signed in from anywhere new," she said.She responded to Facebook, reporting that it was not her who had logged in to her Facebook page.Hackers had already infiltrated her account, changing the date of birth and email address linked to her page.
"They are then able to leverage that engagement to 'boost' or push out other posts, potentially scams themselves, to capture the personal information of victims."Ms Anderson said she had worked for 10 years to build up the followers on her Facebook page."That page is everything to me. It's my biggest platform and how people find me," she said.
With an intimate knowledge of Facebook's processes, the hackers always seemed one step ahead, for example, removing her profile image so she could not use a photo to identify herself. "You would think for people like myself, who monetise our Facebook views, we would have some kind of contact link given to us by Facebook so we can get in touch with them when our business has been compromised."