Facebook hackers!

[cheezscott]

Hey anyone have their Facebook account hacked. All my friends were IM'd or EM'd and told I was mugged in London! Seriously, problem is now my account is suspended/disabled and a dozen or so EM's to FB help have not gotten answered! Anyone have a solution!!!

[pretendastronaut]

Wow, I haven't seen the London scam in awhile, I figured that one was dead.

 

But that sucks, I'm not sure of the exact steps, but I know Facebook has a report form that your friends/family can use to report that your account was hacked. I know I filled it out for a family member's account once, told others to do the same and she got her account back. Not sure if our reports helped that or not though.

 

Here is the link;

 

http://www.facebook.com/help/?topic=security

[Nottso]

I use Avast antivirus, and it has caught numerous pieces of malware within Facebook. It's free for home users and very good. It usually catches the uglies before they can get in, alerts you, and even tells you what to do. I do run a monthly full scan just to be sure, but I always come up clean. I also like MalwareBytes and SpywareBlaster. Also free, and also good.

 

You should also add 00001@000000111.com to your email address book as well. Any nonsense will do, but it should begin with all zeros so that it will always be the first addie in the book. Then if you ever get a "bounce back" saying "mail to 00001@000000111.com was undeliverable," you'll know right away that you have an infection and can take steps to correct it. You certainly didn't send mail to an address you know to be bogus, now did you. Some say that that bogus first address will stop the malware from emailing anyone else, as it gets "stuck" on the bogus addie, but I can't confirm that. Perhaps some of our resident IT personnel will be able to assist further.

[RyDogg66]

IMs, EMs, FBs....Im old.

[Menotti80]

so glad i disabled my facebook account earlier this year...

[Diskono]

Stuff like this happens when passwords get transmitted in clear text. Don't log in to the website over http, always use https. Also avoid logging in over open wireless networks. This can be especially tricky now that lots of phones and such can connect to wireless networks automatically, and on top of that, have built-in facebook support.

 

Anything you transmit over http is clear text that anybody along the way can see. Email is all clear text. IMs are often clear text. To be safest, assume everything you type on the internet is transmitted in clear text, unless you know for sure that it is encrypted.

[sgtcluels]

Sounds like more then likely you got cracked and not hacked. Do you use a complex enough password?

[crewcrazy]

I recently stumbled across a blog post on password security shortly after reading this thread, and thought it might make a good read for those who have been recently victimized or those who want to take some preemptive action: http://lifehacker.com/550...hack-your-weak-passwords

 

The author clues us in on what hackers (especially those looking for bank info) try to do, and how you can create passwords that would take forever to crack. I thought it was a good read.