Having your Facebook hacked can be an annoying experience. I’ve personally experienced this after a couple of friends contacted me claiming that am sending them messages they think aren’t coming from me.

On September 25, 2018, Facebook discovered that attackers had exploited a vulnerability caused by the complex interaction of three bugs in there system to obtain access tokens.

There tokens are used a digital key to request certain information through Facebook. Long story short, Facebook acted quickly to secure the site and began an investigation to determine if anyone’s Facebook information was accessed and how many users were impacted and finally got it sorted.

In this article, am going to how you how to know if your Facebook account is hacked and how you can around to have it fix.

1. How To Know If Your Facebook is Hacked

Hacked Facebook accounts have a number signs you can consider or relate to if its happening to you at the moment. Here are just a few ways on how to know if someone hacked your Facebook account.

i. If you can’t login into your account
ii. If your password was changed by someone else
iii. When you account is sending spammy texts to your contacts
iv. Suspicious friending and un-friending in wired manner
v. Receiving a chuck of friend request in a short while
vi. Auto liking pages you have no idea about

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2. How to Find out Who Hacked your Facebook

Besides using untrusted 3rd party apps and individuals who claim they can lookup for whoever hacked into your Facebook account, there is literally no official way you can do this. There have been couple of accounts that where opened and ran against governments politically but they (governments) failed to trace the people behind those accounts.

The only way to find out who hacked your Facebook account is actually to contact Facebook and let them know about the possible hack and if necessary ask them to provide the hack logs, attacker devices and IP location.

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3. What do to if Your Facebook Account is Hacked

Once you realise that your account is being accessed by an intruder due to suspicious actions that i shared with you in section 1 of this article, here is what you can do

1. Change your Facebook account password
2. Change the password to the email you used when joining Facebook
3. Set up the two factor authentication
4. Disconnect all un official 3rd party apps you granted access to your Facebook account
5. Check all your activity logs and block all suspicious activities
6. Disable all suspicious devices you have no idea about accessing your account.
7. Review all the unauthorised logins and devices
8. Activate alerts on unauthorised logins
9. Encrypt all notification emails from Facebook

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4. How to Fix a Hacked Facebook account

1. Use An Authentication App for Two-Factor Authentication?

1. Install a third-party authentication app on your device. It’s best to install the app on the device you normally use to access Facebook.
2. Go to your Security and Login Settings.
3. Scroll down and click Use two-factor authentication.
4. Click Get Started. You may be asked to re-enter your password at this point.
5. Click Authentication App when you’re asked to choose your security method.
6. Follow the on-screen instructions.

2. Use App passwords

1. Go to your Security and Login Settings.
2. Scroll down to Use two-factor authentication and click Edit.
3. Go to App Passwords and click Generate.
4. Follow the on-screen instructions.

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Inclosing

The security of your Facebook account all lies in your hands. Know that you should never use unsecure applications on your phone or using a rooted device to access apps like Facebook or WhatsApp.

Also, limiting access to your device turns out to be helpful as you don’t know the intentions of whoever is having access to your mobile. Just know someone may simply install a spy app to monitor your activity and even steal login details on other actions you perform.

So using a basic password protection app, limits access to your device and halting access to your Facebook account by 3rd party apps greatly help you protecting your online presence and security.

Credit: Facebook Help