Lingerie brand Simone Perele’s Facebook hijacked by hackers making ‘obscene’ posts

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Global lingerie brand Simone Pérèle has confirmed that their Australian Facebook account was hacked on Saturday with images about women’s periods to topless women holding guns just some of the images being shown.

A statement from Simone Pérèle confirmed that their website had been hacked a ‘series of obscene posts’ were put up there that had a number of disturbing pictures.

One graphic image called ‘And This Is How Women Feel During There Period… Is So True’, left nothing to the imagination and was obviously insulting towards women. 

 Even Kim Kardashian got a mention when an image of a buxom model was shown with the words ‘Is This Woman The Next Kim Kardashian’ on it.  

The Facebook page of global lingerie brand Simone Pérèle was hacked with the ‘next Kim Kardashian’ now making an unlikely appearance on it 

The disturbing images such as this one referring to periods upset many of the Simone Pérèle Facebook users 

The lingerie brand is the premium apparel brand exclusively sold in David Jones stores nationwide

‘This twenty-something girl has bootylicious curves that people think make her look hotter than the selfie queen. Check out our images here to know for yourself!’ it reads.  

Two young women were pictured dressed in army uniforms and carrying guns were pictured with the title: ’16 Of The Most Beautiful Soldiers In The World. Fight Me!’

While another image had a man surrounded by scantily clad models as he showed them how to use guns. The title here was: ‘This Man Is Living Your Dreams.’ 

The lingerie brand is the premium apparel brand exclusively sold in David Jones stores nationwide, with more than 150,000 customers in their database, and they have been desperately trying to rectify the situation.  

The images ranged from pretty girls on a night out to a man surrounded by scantily clad models who were armed and dangerous

An image of two young women dressed in army uniforms and carrying guns also appeared

‘They appear to be the same content illegally posted to the University of New South Wales’ Facebook account on its Open Day on September 6 of this year,’ the Simone Pérèle statement said about the hacked images.

‘Posts promoting the physical attributes of female soldiers, naked women with firearms and images of Kim Kardashian continue to be posted without authorisation by the hackers.

‘Following the hijack on Saturday, the Australian team have been exhausting avenues to try and regain access to the site but administrators had been locked out and the Facebook processes have failed to work.’

The Simone Pérèle statement went on to say that currently there is no direct line to Facebook either locally or in their newly renovated corporate US headquarters, ‘leaving global businesses wide open for long-term commercial and reputational damage.’ 

Global lingerie brand Simone Pérèle has more than 150,000 customers in their database here

Simone Pérèle believe the hackers were the same one who used content illegally posted to the University of New South Wales’ Facebook account

It was very clear that the global lingerie brand was far from happy with how easily the hackers could get into their site and that they were not sure what Facebook was doing about it all.   

‘Newly appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Australian market, Tim Rosenfield, supports UNSW President and Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ian Jacobs’ statement issued earlier in the month that this issue is a concern to “anyone that uses social media”,’ the statement read.

‘Business around the globe rely on the direct connection Facebook enables with their consumers, but there are no agencies, industry experts, consumer groups or services within Facebook that support the damage caused by online criminal entities.’

Bad publicity: Administrators had been locked out of the page and the Facebook processes have failed to work

The salacious images have caused a stir and Simone Pérèle’s Australian team have been exhausting avenues to try and regain access to the site

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