From travel vlogs to outfit ideas and shopping hauls, influencers make their livings by sharing nearly every detail of their lives online. Recently, influencers have become the targets of burglaries, with thieves striking when they know the social media stars are out of town.

LA Times reporter Noah Goldberg talked with Lisa McRee about the trend on "LA Times Today." 

An influencer named Victoria Paris was robbed earlier this year while she was in Europe. Goldberg explained what happened. 

“[Paris] just posts what’s going on in her life. She gets fancy bags she shows off to her followers. She has lots of jewelry. She posts about her travels to Europe and she posts from her house in LA,” Goldberg said. “She had posted a lot of personal stuff, the fancy things that she owned, as well as views from her house, which made it pretty easy to identify. She was burglarized earlier this year and someone came into her house and she saw it on CCTV and left with her Miu Miu bags and all the jewelry that she had. And she lost tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of her property.”

Goldberg also heard from other content creators who were burglarized. 

“I also spoke to Emily Oberg, who runs a fashion brand as well as a guy named Joey Zauzig, who was on the ‘Real Friends of West Hollywood’ reality TV show. They both also had people break into their houses, and this all happens while they’re out of town. So one big problem is when these influencers post in real time while they’re out of town, it becomes very obvious that their houses can be targeted,” Goldberg explained.

The idea of targeting public figures goes back to the “Bling Ring” and other crime rings. Overall, Goldberg said, burglaries have gone up this year across LA. 

He shared some tips from law enforcement on how to protect yourself on and offline.

“Either you can shut down all your social media, or, if you still want to use it, you shouldn’t post while you’re away on vacation, so people know that you’re not at your house. If you want to post your vacation pictures, post them at a later date. Don’t post all the fancy items that you’ve bought recently and show where in the house you keep them, and don’t post your house or any identifiable features of your property so that people can easily find you,” he said. 

Watch the full interview above. 

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