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In the wake of explicit and private material featuring current and former performers leaking onto the Internet over the past several months, World Wrestling Entertainment held talent meetings at this past week's Raw and Smackdown tapings to try and prevent such things from happening again, PWInsider.com has learned.
The mandatory meetings were described to us as a class on cyber security threats with an expert from a cyber security firm brought in by the company to give a presentation to the roster. The presentation broke down different ways that one may find themselves tricked into inadvertently allowing their security to be breached. Talents were warned not to even accept USB drives as gifts, even if they were from beautiful women promising naked photos, which talent were told was a scenario that has happened to celebrities in the past.
The expert then gave examples of incidents that have embarassed public figures online and provided specific advice as to how talents can and should protect themselves since they are celebrities and out in the public light.
We are told that the company also gave out an amendment to their social media policy for talents to sign, although what that amendment may have been, we have not yet confirmed. WWE also stressed that no one but the talents and WWE social media teams should have access to the talents' social media accounts.
It's a pretty smart move from WWE to make sure they educate their talents, especially in the wake of so many incidents of late (none of which were referenced in the meetings, we are told.)
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