For many people, seeing their Facebook account hacked and made inaccessible can become a real nightmare, considering all the personal information and photos that we shared and saved on the social network. Before the offender can abuse our Facebook page, delete personal information, change photos and write inappropriate messages, we can still attempt to recover the account.
If we are no longer able to enter our Facebook social profile, in this guide we will show you how to recover the account even without a password and report the theft but, above all, we will show you how to prevent violations in the future, so as to make life of hackers very harder.
1) How to reset the password
The easiest way to enter Facebook without a password if the account has been hacked is to connect to the Facebook login page and click on the item at the top Don't remember how to access the account ">
On the next page we will be asked to enter the email address that we used to access Facebook or alternatively the phone number (if we had signed up from the mobile app), then click Search .
If the email is valid and has not yet been changed by the hacker, we will receive an email at the address where there is a temporary code, which we can use to log back into our account, bypassing the password request.
Since the email is personal, the hacker cannot prevent us from re-entering the account even if he changes his password!
We then use the code provided in the email or click directly on the link provided in the email to start the password recovery procedure.
If we had used the phone number as a username for Facebook, we will receive the security code as an SMS.
In both cases we insert the code in the recovery window that we saw earlier and click Continue ; a new Facebook page will open, where we will be asked to choose a new access password for your account; choose a sufficiently robust one (we recommend at least 8 letters and numbers, with at least one capital letter) and finally click Continue to confirm the change of the password.
We will have regained access to our account, now we can do everything necessary to increase the security of the account and chase away any suspicious logins (as we will see at the end of the guide).
2) How to recover an account seriously violated (change email)
If the hacker who hacked the account is smart and clever enough to change the email address associated with the account (thus nullifying our efforts to recover), there is still one possibility: you can enter the username, ( in my case pomhey because my profile page is www.facebook.com/pomhey ) looking for our page on Google (the name is present in the link) or inserting your name and surname.
In this case, we will be asked to confirm the registered email or the telephone number already entered in the system; if they have changed due to the hacker we must click on the link You can no longer access it "> report the compromised account to Facebook which will clean up the access and all the messages or posts generated from the moment the violation occurred, preventing further problems.
4) How to avoid thefts and protect the Facebook account
If a hacker were able to enter the account, it would leave visible traces in the account settings -> Security, under the heading Active sessions .
We must therefore terminate the suspicious activity (in particular on devices and IPs that we do not recognize) and immediately proceed to change the password, so as to prevent any danger.
In addition, you can enable alerts for unauthorized access, approval of accesses and you can also set a different and temporary password to access Facebook from external applications and clients or on unsafe PCs, so as not to leave any trace (the temporary passwords can only be used once).
After doing everything possible to regain control of the hacked Facebook account, it is important to inform friends about what is going on, in case the hacker has abused his profile to spread viruses, advertisements or unpleasant messages.
If it is not possible to enter the account, contact Facebook friends by phone, email or through other social networks and ask them to notify mutual friends.
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