Seppius Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 Anyone ever recovered a hacked Facebook account? Mine was over 15 years old, but recently got hacked by someone in Vietnam. Absolutely no help from Meta, and when I try the online recovery it won't work because the person changed my email, and it says no account with that email Sent a few emails to [email protected], did not even get a reply Grateful for any suggestions? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eia310e Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 Someone gained access to my account (or at lease spoofed my profile) and sent messages to some of my contacts. I went into the privacy settings and there is a section which says where you are logged on.... a list of all the devices currently logged on to your account. I logged out of all of them, changed my password and logged back in. I believe the person never had my password, otherwise, they would have changed it before i did. Then I ran the FB privacy checker and all seemed ok. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seppius Posted June 30, 2023 Author Share Posted June 30, 2023 49 minutes ago, eia310e said: Someone gained access to my account (or at lease spoofed my profile) and sent messages to some of my contacts. I went into the privacy settings and there is a section which says where you are logged on.... a list of all the devices currently logged on to your account. I logged out of all of them, changed my password and logged back in. I believe the person never had my password, otherwise, they would have changed it before i did. Then I ran the FB privacy checker and all seemed ok. Thank you for the reply, I believe they have full control email and password, but they have not appeared to use the account or send messages to my friends, been a couple of months now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3NUMBAS Posted June 30, 2023 Share Posted June 30, 2023 2 mates of mine had their accounts stolen by gay colored gents dunno how they did it as 1 is now dead 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoshowJones Posted July 4, 2023 Share Posted July 4, 2023 On 6/30/2023 at 12:05 PM, Seppius said: Anyone ever recovered a hacked Facebook account? Mine was over 15 years old, but recently got hacked by someone in Vietnam. Absolutely no help from Meta, and when I try the online recovery it won't work because the person changed my email, and it says no account with that email Sent a few emails to [email protected], did not even get a reply Grateful for any suggestions? Not surprised you did not get a reply, Facebook are run by the most incompetent people anywhere. I have to sign in my full password every time I sign in, this has been going on for months now. I do everything they ask me to do but it makes no difference. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJAS Posted July 15, 2023 Share Posted July 15, 2023 (edited) On 6/30/2023 at 12:05 PM, Seppius said: Anyone ever recovered a hacked Facebook account? Mine was over 15 years old, but recently got hacked by someone in Vietnam. Matches my brother-in-law's recent experience. Vietnam is from where FB accounts are hacked these days, it would seem! He decided to give his FB account the heave-ho as a result. Personally speaking if I were in your shoes, I would be extremely wary of recovering a social media account with obvious security flaws which Meta seem unable/unwilling to fix, in case of a further hacking event. Edited July 15, 2023 by OJAS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seppius Posted July 15, 2023 Author Share Posted July 15, 2023 Good advice, in my case I can't even get in to close the account, no response from FB at all, so as you say given up on getting it back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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