Facebook Hacked – What you need to do immediately

Once your Facebook account is hacked, bad guys can access your chats, abuse your personal Facebook page to do wrong actions, such as texting scams to borrow money, .. . .

Facebook Hacked – What you need to do immediately

If you discover your Facebook account has been hacked and don’t want to have to create a new Facebook account, here’s what you need to do immediately.

How to detect hacked Facebook account?

If you are wondering if your Facebook account has been hacked, follow the steps below to check:

First log in to your Facebook account, then click on the arrowhead icon in the top right corner to expand the menu. From this menu, click Settings (settings) =>Security and Login (security or login).

In the top corner you will see a list of devices where you have logged into your Facebook account most recently.

Click select See More (see also) to expand the list and review older login sessions. If you detect suspicious login activity, here’s what you need to do right away.

Facebook Hacked – What you need to do immediately

1. Change Facebook password

In case if the bad guy has not changed the login password, you are lucky. What you need to do now is change your Facebook login password before logging out of suspicious sessions.

If the bad guy has changed the password in time, you can reset the Facebook password.

In the section Settings (settings) =>Security and Login (security and Facebook login), scroll down to find Login (login) then click Change Password (change the password). Enter your current login password, then set a new, stronger password with a combination of numbers and letters so bad guys can’t guess it, or you can use a password manager like LastPass to create a password, when finished, click Save Changes (save changes).

After changing Facebook password, go back to Where You’re Logged In (login location) and log out of the login sessions by clicking on the 3-dot icon or expanding the list and then clicking Log Out Of All Sessions (log out all sessions) located in the bottom right corner to log out Facebook from all devices.

Reset Facebook password

If unfortunately, the bad guy has already changed your Facebook password and you can’t access your account anymore. To regain access to your account, click on the link Forgot your password? (forgot login password) is under Facebook login (login Facebook).

This allows you to recover your password in different ways. First you’ll have to find your account by entering the email address or phone number you used to sign up for your Facebook account.

If Facebook can find the account then you can use the option Reset Your Password (reset Password).

Click on the link No longer have access to these? (no longer accessible). Facebook will now give you options to verify your identity. This process may take some time.

2. Report hacked Facebook account

If your Facebook account is not hacked in the usual way, moreover bad guys are sending ads and spam to your friends, in which case you must report your account hacked.

Also, if you lose access to your account, you can also report your Facebook account being hacked. Facebook will help you restore access to your account.

3. Remove suspicious apps

It is no coincidence that bad guys can attack and hack your Facebook account. The cause may be that you grant Facebook access to some malicious application.

To remove suspicious apps, go to Settings (settings) =>Apps and Websites (apps and websites), then go through a list of apps. Click select Show All (show all) to see a list of the apps and websites you’ve visited, tick the apps or websites you want to delete, then click Remove button (delete) in the top corner and confirm to delete all Facebook posts, images and videos created from these apps.

Or another way is to click View and Edit (view and edit), then change app permissions, including options like app visibility, access to personal information, and other actions.

4. Damage control

After you have done everything to regain access and control of your Facebook account, proceed to notify your users and friends on Facebook about your account being hacked.

In case if you can’t access your account anymore, you can ask your friends to notify you on Facebook to avoid and minimize the damage that bad guys can cause.

Configure Facebook privacy and security settings and options

Once you have your Facebook account back, the next step you should take is to review your Facebook security settings.

– In the section Settings (settings) =>General (general settings), update your contact details, add an email address or mobile phone number. Get rid of emails and phone numbers that are no longer accessible.

– In the section Settings (settings) =>Security and Login (security and login), set up additional security measures, including warning for suspicious logins, 2-factor authentication, and choose about – 5 trusted people to help recover your Facebook account if unfortunately locked.

– In the section Settings (settings) => Privacy, choose the privacy settings that you feel are most suitable. Taimienphi.vn recommends that you limit, only allow friends to see future posts, and limit the display of past posts.

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