4 things to do instantly when your Facebook account is hacked

Your Facebook account is hacked would not make you feel good. You have personal messages and other stuff that someone could steal or delete, causing you a lot of trouble. If you worry of your account get hack by someone, you should take recovery steps immediately. Here are a few things you must do quickly to ensure your account is safe.

Change Your Password

The first thing you should do is to change your password. Hacker most probably has accessed to your email address and password somehow, so you need to make sure you change the password immediately. If you are going to use the same password to access the other accounts such as your banking account, any financial institutions, and other email addresses, etc., then make sure you change those passwords immediately as well. If the hacker already changed your password, try to reset your password immediately. To reset your password, click on ‘Forgotten your password?’  in Facebook login page. Make sure you choose a strong password which consists of lowercase letters, uppercase letters, numerals and etc. In summary, use a alpha-numeric password.

Report Compromised Account

 If your account was not simply got hacked, but is sending out ads and spam to your friends, you must report it as compromised. Go to www.facebook.com/hacked. Facebook will take you through a few steps to help you secure your account.

Notify your Friends & Family

Check your timeline to see if there is any unwanted post. If so, delete it immediately. Post a status telling your friends that your account is hacked unfortunately. Similarly check your messages to see whether any message was sent from your account recently. If so, message your friends to explain what is going on. The hacker may use your account to send them malicious links and to phish for their personal information as well. By sharing your situation with them can prevent hacking issue happen around them.

Remove Suspicious Applications

Oftentimes, it’s not an evil person that randomly hack into your account. More likely is the access to a malicious application which subsequently hijacked your account. To remove suspicious applications, go to > Home > Account Settings > Apps and go through the list. Click the > X next to any application you wish to remove or click > Edit to do setting on the app.

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Conclusion, these four points are really useful when someone hack your account. When you really get hacked by someone, immediately you should change your password and notify your friends about it. In addition, please avoid to use same password to all following account such as different social media account (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube), ATM card, and others. The reason that why should not apply same password to all account is if the hacker hacked either one of your account, he/she will also can easily hacked your other account. 

Written By:

Liao Wan Ying

Bachelor of Public Relations (Honours)

Tunku Abdul Rahman University College