How & Why Facebook Accounts Are Hacked- How To Prevent & Recover A hacked Account

Facebook account hacking has been on the trend lately, here are the possible means by which your Facebook.com account can be hacked, how to avoid them and possibly get your account back on the event that you have fallen victim to these hackers, we will start by sharing useful tips on how to prevent getting your Facebook account hacked in the first place , and how to possibly retrieve a hacked account if you loose guard.

Why are Facebook accounts Hacked

Why are Facebook accounts hacked? Why do people actually hack others Facebook account? Do they earn some cash or rewards by doing so? You might ask, well the fact is that people hack people’s Facebook account for different purposes, but whatever the reasons are, there are all fraudulent.

1 ~ Most persons hack Facebook accounts for Street works(yahoo) so instead of creating a new Facebook account they will seek for an older account(3 to 10 years account) hack it and change the users names and personal details, and use it for G work(Yahoo)

2 ~ Some persons hack people’s Facebook accounts to use it for scam, these set of hackers will not change the account owners personal details(Name, Photo) etc since they need it for their dubious acts, here is what they do when they get into the users account, their will chat up your friends then present a business proposal to them, convince them that it’s working and rue them into sending money to them, and since your friends or families trust you, some of them(dumb ones) will buy the idea send money to you(them) and get scammed, while the smart ones will try to verify by at least calling to verify if it is truly you.

3 ~ Similar set of Facebook hackers, hack people’s Facebook account to actually beg with it 😊, funny right?, they too use the owners real details, then Chat up your contacts to beg them for money or loans, some of your friends or families might fall for the scam especially the distance ones

4 ~ Also Some of them hack people’s Facebook accounts to sell them to the first set of hackers, who needed an older Facebook Acct for their dubious act, this set of hackers always goes for an older Facebook account and are ready to pay to buy one.

How are Facebook Accounts Hacked And How To Prevent

Now that you know why Facebook accounts are hacked, you will equally need to know how these hackers succeed in hacking peoples account and how to save your account.

~ Through Phishing Pages: These hackers can successfully get access to your Facebook account by asking you to give it to them, but they wouldn’t just ask you, they are not that dumb, that’s where Phishing pages comes in, they will try to get your Facebook login details with an enticing offer,

This enticing offer can be sent through Phishing Emails or Text Messages sent to WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger chats or Facebook groups first they will create a page that looks like(contains) a Facebook Login page, then they will send you a link to the page inform of a giveaway or promotion with an enticing titles like

” CLAIM FREE 100GB DATA”

DANGOTE IS GIVING FREE N50000,CLAIM YOURS

“HEY DEAR AM RUNNING FOR A COMPETITION, CLICK THIS LINK TO VOTE FOR ME”

“FEDERAL GOVT IS PAYING N8000 CLICK HERE TO GET YOURS”, etc

Some can come as security alert, like

HELLO YOUR FACEBOOK ACCOUNT IS ABOUT TO BE HACKED, LOGIN NOW TO CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD”

Those attractive headlines will prompt you to click on the link which will then ask you to provide your personal details and then redirect your to their Phishing Facebook login page and if you’re too dumb you will try to login with your Facebook or email details, once that is done, kiss goodbye to your Facebook account, because your account is official hacked.

To prevent getting your Facebook hacked with a phishing pages you should only login to your Facebook account directly from Facebook with the url show https://Facebook.com

Below are examples of fake Facebook phishing pages

~Through lost phones or mobile phone numbers: this method is self explanatory, Facebook account are easily hacked with the registered mobile phone number, If you lost the phone number that is associated with your Facebook account, its best you do a welcome back or change to a new number on your Facebook account.

~Through public or school cafés: If you are the type that login to your Facebook page on public or school cafes, make sure your log out or clear your login details afterwards, also never auto save your details on those browsers because anyone can have access to it

~Through Personal Contact(Friends): Your Facebook account can be hacked by someone close to you, well that’s the awful truth, if a friend of yours had bad intentions, he/she can steal your Facebook login details or reset the password when you grant him/her access to your phone, well in that case you should be weary of whom you give your phones to and can even tighten your privacy by locking your personal apps like messages, contacts, personal browsers or Email apps.

How To Retrieve a hacked Facebook account

There is a saying that prevention is better than cure, and that’s practically true, if your Facebook account has already been hacked, there are chances that you can recover it, but it’s a 50/50 chance anyways, you have to give it a shot,

~ Try Resetting Your Password: Chances are that the hacker has only changed your password, not your email or mobile phone number, in that case, you have to try resetting your password via email or phone number, if luck strikes you can have your account back

To do that visit Facebook.com, provide your email and click on forgot password the fill your details as shown below

~ Report your hacked account: Facebook on the other hand has provided a portal for reporting a hacked account, if you tried resetting passwords without any luck you should then contact Facebook and report the account to them, to do that you will have to visit Facebook.com/hacked/, then fill out the necessary details and submit to Facebook, Facebook admin will check the account activity and probably retrieve it for you

~ Tell your Friends to report the account: If your account is hacked by the second and third layer of hackers(those that use your account to scam your friends or beg for financial aid) you should phone your friends whom you are in contact with and urge them to report your account as a compromised one, if Facebook receives tens of negative reports on an account, there will surely take drastic measures on the account.

That’s basically how and why Facebook accounts are hacked and how you can prevent or possibly recover your hacked Facebook account, hope the tips helped

If you have other tips that can be useful kindly drop them on the comment box below, Regards.