A few years back, hacking Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram accounts were not common as it has recently been. Today, the vice is on the rise and many Ugandan accounts have been compromised and later used as daemon accounts to steal more other Facebook accounts. Stealing an account doesn’t need so much to learn in hacking, plank hackers use already made tools in their actions and once an account has been taken away from you, it will be used under your username and many of your online friends will fall victims.
Of late, majorly targeted accounts were those managed and owned by celebrities, and public figures, for example, there were so much to talk about when Irene Ntale’s account had been hacked and so many other musicians plus comedy stars. As well, accounts that manage pages with huge traffic or followers and audiences are a good attraction to Facebook hackers. Today, I will show you live examples of a hacked profile, why it was hacked, who hacked it, and how it was hacked and later stolen from the person.
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Live examples of Hacked Facebook profiles around you
For privacy reasons, I will hold the actual name of the victim interviewed about the incident, so here we shall use Peter. Facebook recently has been allowing one contact to register more than one account, as a writer, a blogger, and an internet marketer, Peter used the same opportunity and created an account under another name. His intention was to drive more traffic and create an advertising page which he says was able to create and the Facebook page worked so well. Since it was just a business profile with fewer details, Peter says that’s he did not attach an email account and only left his contact number as the only contact details available.
Usually, when a page has been created out of a Facebook account or profile, it takes a while before Facebook confirms changes of page profile name, thus from your profile name to a page name. He says it took a while before that was confirmed but gladly up to three days; the page got a different name from that of his new profile. Normally, hackers target such profiles that are administrators of Facebook pages with larger audiences.
Ways how Such Facebook pages are hacked?
Peter continues to say that five months later, the account was super fine and doing well. He ran a number of adverts and accumulated a bit larger followers than earlier on. He says that there were new online friends who really had gotten interested in his posts and within that time, he had caught in a chat with someone who claimed to be a blogger as well. Peter says that the strange online friend was quite pleasing in her chats and they were so in touch for more than two weeks. She, however, one day sent him a redirect link and asked him to visit the site it being her personal blog, of course after learning about his blogging skills. She claimed to have been in need of more help on how to make and run a better blog. “I was not really a bag guy to ignore her request” Peter claims.
He visited, forgetting the first rule in staying safe over the internet, whenever you are visiting any links while on any social platform, you need to be mindful of the sites you visit and how they prompt you to type in your passwords, the site his pal sent was a mere PHP page that was programmed to automatically look through a target Facebook profile, pick and fill in the contact and prompted for the password. See, it has a way it manipulates you and tempts you to enter your Facebook user password which Peter did on the go. This type of stealing passwords is called phishing, and Facebook nowadays has advanced its security in such a way that it will always warm you when you are leaving Facebook that the site you are visiting might be a phishing site.
Honestly, the site he visited was not a blog, and it had nothing to do with blogging. On returning to Facebook, Peter was asked to verify his login details again. He says he entered the usual password and contact that he earlier used; unfortunately getting a pop-up claiming that the details did not match any Facebook accounts.
Ways to follow and monitor a hacked Facebook account
The woman who pretended to be his online friend had finally stolen the account and changed all his details, including contact and passwords. Peter says that he was not sure about the intentions of the woman and her malicious actions. Perhaps they had chatted for a while and she always pretended to be a friend, but any social friend isn’t always a friend, many people over the web have their own objectives, perhaps she must have watched his online actions for a while targeting him or else her account was a daemon profile already compromised by the hackers. That’s what Facebook hackers do.
It’s always advisable to add a valid email account to your Facebook profile as it will be easy while getting your account back. It becomes easy for Facebook to track and get your account safe and intact. In fact, before making any changes, Facebook will send you an email asking if you are the one who made the changes, if you are not the one, then they will ask you to click the link they provide you with, and the process will proceed with them till your account is safe.
However, Peter had no email and it became so hard for him to recover his account immediately. No matter, his last logged-in account details helped him in this case (of course not recovering it sooner) There were only two accounts logged in his phone so he was still able to see the profile on the Facebook Lite login page. Nonetheless, Peter went on and used his official account that had been a friend to the stolen profile to follow and monitor the daemon account. “I used to see my stolen account online, and I was really wondering what she was doing with my account that was still in my name. That scared me” Peter explains. However, getting it back was still very far because there was no link between his email and the stolen profile.
The only thing he could do was to monitor the posts and other activities of the daemon account, nothing more. Another step Peter says he made was to inform everyone else one by one that the account was hacked so that no one would fall, victim, of course, you cannot inform everyone, the number who got to know about it helped. Some of them went on to inbox the profile and others posted on its wall saying “Account Hacked” as he explains.
However, this action alerted the malicious stranger after knowing that many had realized it, and she changed the account username to Bruno Hogan and as well blocking most of the profiles that had been realized (Bruno Hogan is still the username peter still uses even after recovering it since it takes up to 90 days before you can change your username again) His intention was to completely change the account and hide it that no one could follow it. However, my logins still reflected the changes, and I was able to follow the daemon account still.
However, that was how Peter was able to follow up and monitor his hacked account. You can do the same he did before making any other actions or else, you can inform a friend you know very well and if he or she is as well your online friend to track and monitor the stolen profile for you if you lack a second account as you prepare for the second step which is recovering your account from the hacker. This episode was specifically presenting how accounts are being stolen and the most common method hackers use is phishing.
Fake websites that look exactly like Facebook are created and links shared where you provide your login details and once you click login, all your this information is posted in the database of the malicious hacker without being redirected to the actual Facebook account you own.
Another common incident in phishing is related to online works where you are required to sign up using your Facebook account if possible stop using Facebook account to sign up for anything online. Hackers target what you love most and they will get you in any way. Recently while Ugandan Facebook accounts fell victims through the crazy love for free faster VPNs.
Lately, it was very easy to detect phishing sites because most of them did not have a secure connection through HTTPS, thus they lacked SSL certificates. However, these days it’s no longer the case. Many phishing sites have been able to purchase and acquire SSL certificates on the site. Do you want to know how Peter was able to recover his Facebook account back? Then follow and subscribe to our newsletters for the latest posts about the same topic.