Jennifer Richardson talks cyber crime insurance with DKS
Updated | By Darren, Keri and Sky
You can now actually have insurance against your social media accounts!
Social media is becoming many people's bread and butter.
However, whenever people get hacked, it can have a massive ripple effect on a person's bank account.
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Over the last couple of weeks, we have been chatting about people's social media accounts getting hacked.
As we went deeper into the topic, we discovered that you can have insurance against your own social media accounts.
To get a better understanding of this, DKS spoke with Jennifer Richardson, who is part of Scottfin Insurance Brokers.
Listen to the full interview below:
According to Jennifer, cyber crime is a reality.
It's always best to be ahead of the game, as hackers will always try to be one step of you.
SEE: What makes hacking your account easy? Your short and sweet password!
Jennifer goes on to say that South Africa is the most attacked country in Africa.
Businesses and personnel in South Africa are estimated to lose R2.2-billion annually due to cyber crime. Crazy!
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