Facebook is now an old social media platform. It has personal memories and professional memories for many individuals through the years. Now let us see what happens if your Facebook account gets hacked:
The hacker will gain control of your:
- Pictures
- Views and opinions
- Family tree
- Birthdate
- And any other information that you may have given out knowingly or unknowingly!
- In the past few years, I have heard of several people having their Facebook account compromised.
In this post, we learn to recognize Facebook account compromise and the remedial steps that must be taken post the FB hack.
How do you recognize that your Facebook account has indeed been compromised?
- From the victims perspective, if you recognize that multiple people are getting friend requests on your behalf without you doing anything – it is the HACKER AT WORK!
- From a Facebook friends perspective, if you get a repeat friend request from your ALREADY existent “friend”, then it is wise to STOP and THINK and not accept the new friend request !
- Another sign that your Facebook is hacked or is in the process of being hacked, is if you get repeated recovery email attempts without you doing anything.
- Apart from this any odd and different things in the online world may signal that your account is being hacked.
What do you do after your Facebook account has been hacked?
Once you know that your account has been compromised here are a few things you can do:
- Inform your friends that your account is being used maliciously by somebody else. The hacker could get in touch with your friends and ask for financial assistance or dig deeper into their personal details as well
- Report that your Facebook account has been hacked at this URL
- Logout of Facebook from all devices
- Change the Facebook password immediately(you can also change the password for other sites as well)
- Enable 2FA or two factor authentication
These are some simple steps that will help you stay safe on Facebook.
Facebook is a massive social media platform holding huge amounts of personal information. It is crucial to keep an eye on it and make sure that it is safe from hackers all the time!
Stay safe online and offline!
This is the third post for #BlogchatterHalfMarathon by @Blogchatter
Informative post. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
Wow that is a useful lost. Thanks for writing dear. 🙂
Thank you!
It would be disastrous indeed if, God forbid, our account were to be hacked! This was a really informative post
Yes..thanks !