How a (Weirdly Chill) Celebrity Thinks About Personal Cybersecurity
NBA legend Shaquille O'Neal discusses his personal approach to cybersecurity following a hacking incident. He emphasizes the importance of digital vigilance and partners with NordVPN to promote consumer awareness regarding online safety.
Why it matters
High-profile figures are increasingly becoming targets for cybercrime, highlighting the need for better public education on digital defense tools.
“I have a video of me beating up Charles Barkley, and I wouldn't want the world to see that. That was a joke,” O'Neal says. “But everybody needs to have control of their own information.”
After being targeted by scammers who claimed that he was trying to buy a house and they were working on the transaction, O’Neal says, he realized he needed to learn more about cybersecurity and digital defense.
“I was hacked for the first time, not a bad hack, and I didn't know what to do,” he told reporters. “So I had to look into it. Once that happened, I really had to start paying more attention, because I would think nothing like that could ever happen to me, but it could happen to anybody.”
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