Is It a Hack? Or a Different Type of Exploit?
What Causes My Messenger to Spam my Friends?
Recently, I am seeing a spate of folks warning friends their Facebook has been hacked. This is usually preceded by their account sending out messages to everyone on their Friends list. The user assures everyone s/he has changed his/her password, and thinks s/he has done what is necessary to re-secure the account. But have they really? Unfortunately, the answer is no. Changing a password will ONLY help protect you IF, in fact, someone has discovered your username and password, and has used that information to log into your account. Generally, the first thing someone who hacks your account will do is change your password, and quite possibly the associated e-mail or phone number too, effectively locking you out of your own account.
In this post, we'll review the difference between a "hack" and other types of Facebook Exploits. And we'll review what you NEED to do should you be caught in any type of Facebook Exploit.
