Your Facebook account might have been compromised.
An account on a social networking website such as Facebook
can be a prime target for hackers. If you have lost access to your Facebook
account because it has been hacked, your first priority is to regain access to
the account before the hacker can send messages to your friends that could
result in their accounts being compromised as well.
Facebook provides tools that you can use to recover a
compromised account, based on whether or not your personal email account has
been hacked as well.
If You Can Access Your Email
1. Open a Web browser and navigate to the Facebook account
recovery page using the Resource link.
Click the link after Step 1 on the page.
2. Click the link after Step 1 on the new page to begin
the process of resetting your Facebook password.
Click in the box under "Enter Your Facebook
Username," and type the name that you use when logging in to Facebook.
Alternatively, use the first box to enter the email address
or phone number associated with your account.
Click the "Search" button.
A security check window appears.
Type the words that appear on the screen, and then click
"Submit."
Click the "Reset Password" button.
Facebook sends an email to the address linked to your
account.
The email address is displayed on the screen.
If the email address displayed is not your own, it means
that the hacker who compromised your account changed the email address
associated with it. If this is the case, follow the steps in the section
"If You Cannot Access Your Email."
Check your email address for a message titled "Facebook
Password Reset Confirmation."
Open the email and click the link contained within.
The Web browser navigates to the Facebook password reset
page.
Type the password that you would like to use for
your Facebook account, and then type it a second time to confirm that you
entered it correctly.
Click "Change Password" to log in to
the account.
If You Cannot Access Your Email
Open a Web browser and navigate to the Facebook account
recovery page using the Resource link.
Click the link after Step 2 on the page.
Click the first link on the new page if your email account
has been hacked and you no longer have access to it, or click the second link
if you followed the steps in the section.
"If You Can Access Your Email" and the email
address displayed was not your own.
Type the phone number or username of your
Facebook account, and then click "Search."
If you are unable to get a match, type your name
plus the name of one of your Facebook friends.
Type the words displayed in the security check
box, and then click "Submit."
This brings you to a Web form titled "My
Account Has Been Compromised."
Fill in the information requested on the form,
including your Facebook username, your name, any email addresses associated
with the account, your own email address and a description of the problem.
Click "Submit."
This sends a message to Facebook notifying its
support staff that your account has been compromised.
Before unlocking your account, a member of the
Facebook staff will contact you to confirm your identity.
Facebook account compromised
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