Wednesday, October 31, 2018

How to know if your Facebook account details have been stolen

In the past few months, Facebook has been exposed to a number of incidents that question the security of user information.

Accordingly, last month (September) was announced that three million people had been stolen on Facebook social network.



Facebook

It was not able to confirm whose information was stolen. It was reported by Facebook company as a bad act. Recently, the company confirmed that about 3 crore people were stolen. Of them, 2 million 90 lakh people have been reported to have been stolen.



1 crore 1.5 lakh information has been stolen

The telephone numbers and email addresses of 1 crore 15 lakhs were also stolen. In addition, all the information, including the name, gender, language, relationship, religion, hometown, present city, date of birth, education and employment of 1 crore 40 lakh people are stolen.



Announcement

It has been reported that Facebook has been contacted via SMS via SMS. However, your account is hacked and you can know if the details are stolen. Let's continue to see how to do this.



Process to Follow:

Step 1: Go to the Facebook page on the desktop and go to the Facebook Help Center (https://www.facebook.com/help/securitynotice).

Step 2: Scroll up to the web page, 'Is my Facebook account impacted by the security issue?' You need to find the option.



Stealing details

If your account is hacked, 'Yes. Based on what we've learned so far in our investigation, attackers have access to the following Facebook account information and 'Name', 'Email addresses' and 'Phone Number'. There are also hackers who do not steal from you.



How hackers stole the details?

According to a Facebook release last month, hackers are using the 'View As' option on the Facebook website. Hackers are stolen not only basic details such as name and birth date but also stolen educational details, mobile phone numbers, email addresses

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