How To Improve Overall Digital Safety

Facebook data breaches have affected millions upon millions of users, including leaked information about “posts on their timelines, their lists of friends, Groups they are members of, the names of recent Messenger conversations, name, contact details, username, gender, locale/language, relationship status, religion, hometown, self-reported current city, birthdate, device types used to access Facebook, education, work, the last 10 places they checked into or were tagged in, website, people or Pages they follow, and the 15 most recent searches”1. This information is very important because it can be used by hackers to answer security questions and take over accounts, or more effectively target affected individuals with personalized and therefore more realistic phishing scams.

As a company, there are certain precautions that can be taken to protect your consumers’ data. A deeper understanding of the coding used for the database that holds the information can help prevent or notice potential security flaws. Implementing a two-factor authentication option on your website allows users to choose a more secure method of logging in.

From the other perspective, individuals themselves can protect their data as well. Recently, apps have been developed to create stronger randomly generated passwords, to prevent hackers from easily cracking them. Varying degrees of privacy settings are available on almost all social media platforms.

Taking strides as a company and urging your customers to take their online security safety seriously will strengthen both overall security and brand dedication. These small preventative actions can help both you and your customers avoid an irreversible mistake of allowing data to be stolen.

1https://newsroom.fb.com/news/2018/10/update-on-security-issue/