The news surprised us all, more than 50 million Facebook accounts were hacked last weekend. While this is an alarming number, it is a small amount considering that Facebook already has over 2,100 million accounts at the moment. So basically, peace of mind, but if you think your account has been compromised or you’ve verified that someone has hijacked your account, you need to follow these steps to recover it.
The first thing that surprises us is that when entering our account, Facebook asks us to log in again. If you have pages associated with your account, regularly use messenger or gaming applications, Facebook will ask you to log in again:
«For security reasons, we may have recently logged you out of your Facebook account. On September 25, 2018, we discovered a complex attack on our system where attackers stole access tokens from Facebook. Access tokens are like digital keys that these attackers could have used to gain control of someone else’s accounts. By closing the sessions, we prevent attackers from using the tokens to access these accounts.”
If you have a problem, Facebook recommends the following steps:
- The first step is to identify yourself at THIS LINK
- If the password doesn’t work for you, change it.
- Close any sessions you have open on different devices
- Remove permissions from applications that you don’t use regularly
What many Facebook users don’t do is make trusted connections. If you do, however, you’re in luck because they can help you recover your account by following these instructions.
- Click on Forgotten your account? on the login page.
- If prompted, enter your email address, phone number, username, or full name and click Seek to find your account.
- Read the list of email addresses that appear in your account. If you don’t have access to it, click No longer have access?
- Enter a new email address or phone number that you have access to and click Keep going.
- Click on View my trusted contacts and write the full name of one of your trusted contacts.
- You will see a series of instructions with a special URL. The URL contains a recovery code that only your trusted contacts have access to. Call your friends and give them the URL so they can open the link and tell you the security code.
- Use the recovery codes provided by your trusted contacts to access your account.
If you need to ask for the special security code, call your friends or speak to them in person. If your Facebook account was hacked, someone else could have access to your email account.
Of course, report anyone who has hijacked your account and ask your friends to report the same.
These are the steps:
First off, you don’t have to have a Facebook account to report accounts that may be impersonating someone else.
If you’re reporting an account for phishing, please indicate whether you’re reporting a Page or a personal profile
If you have a Facebook account and want to report a profile: Go to the profile of the account impersonating you.
- If you can’t find it, search for the name used in the profile or ask your friends to send you a link to the profile.
- Click on
on the cover photo and select report.
- Follow the instructions on the phishing screen to submit a report.
I am sure that with these steps, Facebook will very soon take the appropriate action to return your account and most importantly, take action against the person who hacked your account or impersonated it.
