My Facebook account was hacked!
By The Horse
@TheHorse (205771)
Walnut Creek, California
June 30, 2016 12:03pm CST
When I get emails telling me that someone tried to hack this or that account of mine, I usually dismiss said emails as scams, and forward them to Abuse@Whatever. But this morning, the email that said someone tried to access my Facebook account from China was well-written and seemed legit.
I tried to access my Facebook account from a Comment Notification in my email, and by golly, my account was temporarily frozen, or so it said. I went back and read the comment from my friend. Yep, that was her style of writing, and it was about a subject that only she and I (and our real-world friends) would know about.
All I had to do was change my password on Facebook, and I was back in. Have you had this happen to you? I wonder what the perp would have done with my account had they gotten in. Flooded my page with ads for Asian Brides? Or something even more nefarious?
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24 responses
@akalinus (40440)
• United States
30 Jun 16
It happened to me before. They flooded my page and my friend's pages with messages about how I earned $100 a day. I had to prove I owned the account and change my password. Then I started removing those bogus messages from my page and friend's pages.
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Pity..you would have lesser choice now..lol. Kidding...but I really wonder what they get by doing this.
@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
30 Jun 16
There has been a rash of this recently. Mine was hacked a few days ago. Fortunately I was on at the time and only had to advise them that the login from northern Ontario was not legit and changed my password.
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@koopharper (7477)
• Canada
30 Jun 16
@TheHorse Who knows where they are really. There are way to disguise your IP address. It was pretty irritating at the time. At least they didn't get in.
@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
30 Jun 16
don't'cha wish those folks'p to no-good'd a secret device implanted'n their puters? ya know, to where they'd jest melt 'fore their very eyes when they stole somethin', hacked somethin', made pups/trojans 'n worse??
i've ne'er gone through such, though a medical facility i used got hacked. no worries, they said. none'f my medical info 'twas stolen. sure, they jest got my name/addy/phone#/ss# - phew! aint i relieved those folks aint privy to my medical conditions?? i'd much rather 'em gotten that then the other! 'course, such came with 1 year free credit monitorin'...i'm thinkin' they ought to do such fer life.
i aint sure how those facebook hackers work? though some folks use their personal info'n their profiles that ought not to be shared with the universe, where they vacation 'n e'en their 'xact physical address. no doubt they sell such'n the black market.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
30 Jun 16
@TheHorse to sell to the highest bidders so more scams can be created, more lives ruined :(
@ModernDayWriter (3318)
• New Delhi, India
30 Jun 16
Fb freeze my page once. Never unfreeze till yet.
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@ModernDayWriter (3318)
• New Delhi, India
4 Jul 16
@TheHorse yup, are you sure changing password will help?
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@TheHorse (205771)
• Walnut Creek, California
4 Jul 16
@ModernDayWriter Five it a try, if you want. In my case, it was just some hacker from China trying to get in.
@changjiangzhibin89 (16532)
• China
1 Jul 16
It has not happened to me ,because I have no Facebook account.
@psanasangma (5884)
• India
9 Jul 16
I do not understand why people hacked others a/c for no reason. Besides this there are so many link that you will received in your inbox and if you try to open it get circulated to many of your friends timeline and inbox and group which is really embarrassing therefore we should be very careful
@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
1 Jul 16
I do always wonder the benefit of stealing a Facebook account bt I guess it links to other things that may have personal information. I get the ones about my Paypal account all the time
@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
1 Jul 16
Monday a message took over my computer that said it was from Microsoft and said if I didn't call the 800 number that my computer would be frozen. I couldn't get in and do anything. It was a scam @TheHorse . I called my provider and they found 385 viruses in my system. That was a 4-hour clean up by my provider.
@meowch (2220)
• United States
30 Jun 16
Oh gosh, that doesn't sound good but good thing you are able to get your Facebook account back. Hackers are crazy and twisted good thing my Facebook was never hacked. Though I had a yahoo messenger that got hacked years ago I never used yahoo messenger since.
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@celticeagle (159058)
• Boise, Idaho
1 Jul 16
Same thing happened to me. Wonder what is up? Who knows what they have up their sleeve.
@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
1 Jul 16
they prob hoped you had a credit card linked to it
@JamesHxstatic (29242)
• Eugene, Oregon
30 Jun 16
I had not heard of FB accounts being hacked. I am glad there was an easy fix.
@JudyEv (325814)
• Rockingham, Australia
1 Jul 16
This would be a bit of a worry. It would be hard to know if the advice was real or not but obviously in this case it was.
@teamfreak16 (43421)
• Denver, Colorado
1 Jul 16
I once had to change my password, and I made sure I changed the setting to secure. Haven't had any trouble since.
