Soft serve, hard lessons: Card fraud victim Future Swirl backs Cyber Wardens training kit

First and foremost, Maddalena Easterbrook makes ice cream. Oat milk soft-serve, to be precise.

The Canberra entrepreneur is behind Future Swirl, which is expanding from successful pop-ups and festival stalls to take-home tubs.

But the young founder is also a two-time victim of bank card fraud.

Business bank cards linked to Future Swirl were twice skimmed by scammers, costing Easterbrook thousands of dollars.

Separately, a relative’s business was forced to close in the fallout of a successful email hack.

The incidents gave Easterbrook an unfortunate experience with cyber crime.

Now, she is advocating for other small businesses to take the Cyber Wardens training program to learn the basics of digital resilience.