Facebook Hacks Are Very Easy And Fast

A lot of Facebook accounts are compromised on a daily bases; You might blame Facebook for this security breach of privacy, but in truth they're technically not responsible for most of these attacks.

Facebook account hackers use several means to gain control of vulnerable users' profiles. Mostly, they take advantage of a user's social and psychological naivety. Considering the number of people that connect on Facebook, you can even get hacked through one of your Facebook friends or close acquaintances. Social media account hackers can target accounts with influential and many friends or followers. No one is safe. No social media platform is completely secure, not even Twitter. Tech giants, political figures, and celebrities have all been targeted on the social network.

How Cyber-criminals Hack Facebook Accounts
Facebook hackers use several techniques to take over Facebook accounts. One of the most popular one is Phishing and Social engineering attacks.

1. Phishing and Social Engineering

If you leave your phone number or email address you used in signing up for your Facebook account public on your Facebook profile, then you're more vulnerable to phishing attacks.

Phishing happens when an attacker sends a fake website link to a victim. For instance, they can send a message telling the victim to log into their Facebook account via the given link for security purposes or to retrieve a message.
Once the user clicks the link and enter their Facebook username and password, the attacker grabs that information. If the victim fails to realize the leak in time, the attacker can log into their account. The hacker then changes the affected user's login information and takes over their Facebook account profile.

Please note that this fake link/website maybe a clone of the original and legitimate Facebook. So therefore, be very cautious when you are presented with a form to login to your Facebook account, Ensure that you only enter your Facebook account details only on the legitimate Facebook page or mobile Application.

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An attacker can also request a new password on your behalf. For instance, they can send a message telling you that Facebook needs to fix an issue with your account. They then ask you to send the code you'll receive back to them. Once you send this code, they will change your password and log you out of your account.
Unfortunately, many Facebook users fall victim of this cheap trap; and it's often too late before they realize they've lost access to their Facebook account as the hacker changes their personal information such as phone number, email, password, username etc.
Hiding personal contact information like phone numbers and email addresses from the public can be an effective preventive measure, though not always practical for some persons.

Be careful the type of messages (SMS, Emails, and calls) you respond to, no matter how formal they look.

Don't form the habit of clicking on most links that you come across that look strange or malicious. Be careful not to share your login information with third-party apps or websites that you don't trust of that you haven't verified its Authenticity.

2. Brute Force Attacks
The use of Brute-force by hackers for Facebook hacks involve the use of both manual and automatic methods to device password combinations. To aid them, attackers use several string-generating apps to guess passwords.
Surprisingly, people now make this process easy for hackers. NordPass recently released the top 200 passwords in 2020, and about 73 percent of those are incredibly easy to guess.
Please note that The less complicated a password is, the more vulnerable it is to a brute-force attacks.

Example of such uncomplicated password are 1234,0000,password,123456789,11111,admin, etc.

To prevent a brute-force attack, ensure that you use strong passwords that are difficult to guess. A combination of special characters, numbers, upper- and lower-case letters is effective. example ComTiple@@@!!!3345

Then in Addition to that, compliment the strong password combination with the use of a Facebook two-factor authentication. With that, even if an attacker guesses your password correctly, they can't access your account without your authorization.

Even Though there are ways to bypass Facebook Two-Factor authentication; it will however reduce drastically the chances of getting hacked.

Facebook has introduced some restrictions to help your security, including limits on requesting new passwords; nonetheless, brute force attacks can be way easy without a two-factor authentication mechanism.

3. Faulty Links and Spyware
Some apps ask for permission to access your Facebook credentials. Some of these apps are silently spying on you. In worse cases, they can as well take over your account and spam your friends as well.
Hackers can also use dedicated spying links and apps to install spyware on your computer.

This spying links can come in the form of Free giveaways etc. In most cases, this type of dangerous Links are shared on social media platforms and Email.

Such spyware can then gain access to your Facebook account to perform actions without your knowledge. Infected links and apps can carry out instructions orchestrated by hackers. Preventing this type of attack is easy. Denying untrusted apps access to read your Facebook data goes a long way to help you curtail this type of attack.
Never click a suspicious or unverified link, and avoid untrusted apps as they can introduce malware into your computer and which can be used to hack your Facebook account.

4. Leakage of Password and Username

If your phone or browser stores login information, then you're at risk of getting hacked.
Logging into your Facebook account over a public network or a shared computer can also leave your account at risk.

When you use shared computers, you might forget to log out. That's an opportunity for hackers to snatch your Facebook account as they can get personal information about you from your logged-in account. An attacker can also use session cookies to spy on you over public Wi-Fi.

However, when you save login information, other people that use your computer can sign into your account without your permission. Remember, you can't trust anyone.

How To Prevent Attackers From Hacking Your Facebook Account

The following are some ways to protect your Facebook account from being hacked by cyber-criminals

Becoming a victim of hack on Facebook can be frustrating. In most cases, hackers use the slightest information about the victim to gain control of their account.
Recovering a hacked Facebook account is very possible if action is taken on time but this can be a tough going and sometimes a very impossible task.

However, taking proactive measures to protect your social media accounts works better than trying to recover it after you've fallen victim.