Do Your Social Media Profiles Make You Vulnerable to Hacking?

You might want to consider taking down the Instagram photo you posted of your first day back at the office post-pandemic. Cybersecurity experts say scammers can glean a lot of information (and quickly) from your social media profiles. The CEO of SocialProof Security, a hacker-led vulnerability-assessment and training firm, says she can find 60% of the information she would need to create a good phishing scheme on Instagram alone in about 30 minutes. When it comes to liking, sharing and posting on social media, here are a few things you might want to hit “delete” on.