What to do if your FB Account has been hacked
Go to https://www.facebook.com/hacked and follow the instructions on-screen. You’ll go through three steps:
1. Verify your account and change password. You’ll be asked to identify your account, change your password, and change the password associated with the e-mail account that you use for FB.
2. Review and fix anything the cyber criminal changed.
3. Unlock account.
How to prevent your FB Account from being hacked
Security settings are the key. So stop what you’re doing and print out this article. Then log into FB and update these settings.
From Account settings, click on Security. I recommend the following settings for the highest level of security.
2. Login Notifications – enabled.
3. Login Approvals – enabled. This feature requires that you have a cell phone capable of receiving text messages. When enabled, you will receive a code via text message if your account is accessed from an unrecognized location.
This is important for teens. They may use computers at a friend’s house, the library, or other public locations. As an example, if you are logging in to FB from a computer in the library, you’ll be asked to enter in a code. You’ll receive the text message, know that it’s YOU using FB, and enter the code. If you receive the text message and you WERE NOT trying to log into FB, you’ll know there is a problem. And the hacker trying to get into your account will not have the code.
4. App Passwords – If you don’t have many apps associated with your FB account, you can probably leave this off. If you do enable login approvals as described above, and you do use apps such as Skype through FB, then you may want to set app passwords. You can read about this feature on FB Help and Inside FB.
5. Recognized Devices – if there is anything listed here that doesn’t look familiar, or the date is not recent, remove it.
6. Active Sessions – remove all except Current session.
As a last step, go to General Account settings and change your FB password. And finally, log out of FB when not in use.
Now with your FB account safe and secure, you can get back to important FB activities, such as post-election re-friend, without too much of a fear of hackers accessing your account.
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