IT gurus hacking question

[Sparkles]

How do you figure who hacked your kids facebook? Somebody hacked my daughters and posted extremely vulgar things. I need to know who did this. Their parents and I will have a chat!

Please help.

[ZackM]

Off the top of my head, I would say to report it to Facebook and hopefully they can tell you... If they can't tell you, they can at least ban that member.

Multi-billion, multi-national corporations don't take too kindly to hackers. Unfortunately that includes concerned fathers. You might just have to take this as an opportunity to have a talk with your poor daughter and remind her to keep her head high.

[stang_j_99]

This is why mine will not have one.....atleast for a while....

[Bonbonjovi]

How do you figure who hacked your kids facebook? Somebody hacked my daughters and posted extremely vulgar things. I need to know who did this. Their parents and I will have a chat!

Please help.

before you go off half loaded...many times a hacker on FB is a third party cyber bully, there is more than a reasonable chance that the person(s) that hacked your daughters account wanted the blame to go to just the person you are already thinking that did this...if both families can sit down peacefully you just might figure out who the third party actually is.....way too obvious for a hacker to incriminate themselves..the hacker has it out for both sides

[jck]

You can't find out who did it. 99% of the time, the account wasn't 'hacked'...someone probably had your daughters password.

If you report it to facebook, they will reset her password, but they won't do anything to the culprit and they won't tell you who did it. Privacy concerns and all that politically correct crap

[30-30]

Someone probably commandeered her phone or computer when she left it for a minute and was still logged into facebook.

[Ironman]

No one, should have one! ..... That's all!!!

[Sparkles]

Half loaded is the understatement of the year. I didn't think of it from a third party angle though very good point!

My daughter and I have been chatting for the last two hours. I can't tell her enough how much I love her and how proud I am of her.

I have already tried contacting Facebook. I hope they ban that person but also hope they send me name. Their parents and I will have a great heart to heart if I am ever given that opportunity. I would love to get ahold of an IP address and narrow location down from there.

The stuff they posted pretending to be her would make Jenna Jameson blush.

I know I am supposed to be a forgiving man as a Christian, but I am far from perfect and forgiveness has always been the weakest part of my faith. Tonight totally reaffirms that for me.

Thanks for the tips and advice so far.

[Sparkles]

Someone probably commandeered her phone or computer when she left it for a minute and was still logged into facebook.

We have definitely narrowed this down to not possible, although it was my very first thought.

[Ironman]

Stop!!!

[Sparkles]

Stop!!!

Stop what?

[irenate]

What to do if Facebook is hacked

Here is an article I had found a few months ago, after someone asked me how they would deal with something like this. Can't remember the site, sorry. Hope it helps.


"Facebook.com hacked
For most people, having their Facebook account hacked is a nightmare. Imagine if someone had access to all your private messages, could contact your friends, abuse your Facebook page, and delete your personal information. To avoid this, you should regularly update your password and keep other security settings tight.

Once it’s too late, however, you must act fast. The most important thing is – don’t panic! You can regain access to your account.

How Do You Know Your Facebook Account Was Hacked?

First of all, how do you know your Facebook account was hacked if nothing obvious was changed…yet? If a hacker managed to get into your account, they will leave a trace. While their session is active, it will be listed under > Home (top right corner) > Account Settings > Security > Active Sessions (click edit). Here you can end the activity of suspicious sessions.

It is recommended that you enable Login Approvals for logging in from unrecognized devices. For increased security, you should also set app passwords.

1a. Change Your Password

In case your password was not changed you got lucky! This is the time to update your password! Be sure to end any suspicious active sessions first (see above), then go to > Home > Account Settings > General and click > Password to confirm your current password and then enter a new password.

When you’re done, review our articles regarding Facebook security (see resources below) and see what other measures you can take to secure your account.

From here, proceed to step 3 if you think that your account was abused.

1b. Reset Your Password

If your password was changed, act quick! Try to regain access. There is a > Forgot your password? link underneath the Facebook login.


It will let you retrieve your password in several different ways. You can either enter the email address you registered to Facebook with or any other secondary email address you added, as well as your phone number and username.


If you’re not sure whether the person that hacked your account was smart enough to change your profile information, you should go with the last option and enter your name and that of a friend. This will give you an idea of which information is currently added to your account.


If you don’t have access to any of the email accounts or to the phone number associated with your account, click the > No longer have access to these? URL. This will take you to a page where you can enter a new email address, which Facebook will then use to assist you in recovering your account.


This is not all. If you believe that your account was abused by the person who has access to it, proceed to step 2.

2. Report Compromised Account

If your account wasn’t simply hacked, but is sending out ads and spam to your friends, you must report it as compromised.


From here, immediately proceed to step 2.

3. Do Damage Control

After doing everything you could to regain control over your hacked Facebook account, inform your friends about what is going on, just in case the hacker has abused or currently is abusing your account. If you presently can’t access your account, contact your Facebook friends through other social networks, by email, or have a mutual friend inform them via Facebook. Once you can log in again, proceed to step 3.

4. Remove Suspicious Applications

Oftentimes, it’s not an evil person that randomly hacked into your account. More likely than not you granted access to a malicious application which subsequently hijacked your account. To remove suspicious applications, go to > Home > Account Settings > Apps and go through the list. Click the > X next to any application you wish to remove or click > Edit to change what the app can do."

[Sparkles]

I am not going to quote the entire article, but there is some extremely useful info there. Thank you for posting irenate!

[Ironman]

Stop what?

The obvious! Did I spell that right? Yes... Yes I did!

[Sparkles]

The obvious! Did I spell that right? Yes... Yes I did!

Dude you are going to have to spell out more than one word for me! I am just not catching what you are throwing out there. My head isn't in the right place this second. If you mean stop using Facebook she already deactivated her account, but like her dad she's a day late and dollar short.