Recently, we've heard about the security breach the world,s most popular social network 'Facebook' is experiencing.
According to the confirmation from Facebook, over 15 million users' profile with contacts has been hacked so far and over 14 million profiles including bio's are experiencing the breach also.
To check if you aren't one of the victims, TechWirk's got a panacea to make sure its audience do not suffer the breach.
Here's how to find if your profile has been breached:
1. Login to Facebook using a web browser like chrome or firefox
If Yes:, you’ll be in one of three categories:
A. You’re in the 15 million users’ whose name plus email and/or phone number was accessed.
B. You’re in the 14 million users’ who had that data plus account bio data accessed including “username, gender, locale/language, relationship status, religion, hometown, self-reported current city, birth-date, device types used to access Facebook, education, work, the last 10 places they checked into or were tagged in, website, people or Pages they follow, and the 15 most recent searches”.
2. Watch out for spam or scam calls, emails, or messages as your contact info could have been sold to unscrupulous businesses
Here's how to find if your profile has been breached:
1. Login to Facebook using a web browser like chrome or firefox
2. Open this below Facebook Help center link while logged-in in new tab https://www.facebook.com/help/securitynotice?ref=sec.
3. Scroll down to the section “Is my Facebook account impacted by this security issue?”
Note: Here you’ll see a Yes or No answer to whether your account was one of the 30 million users impacted
If Yes:, you’ll be in one of three categories:
A. You’re in the 15 million users’ whose name plus email and/or phone number was accessed.
B. You’re in the 14 million users’ who had that data plus account bio data accessed including “username, gender, locale/language, relationship status, religion, hometown, self-reported current city, birth-date, device types used to access Facebook, education, work, the last 10 places they checked into or were tagged in, website, people or Pages they follow, and the 15 most recent searches”.
C. You’re in the 1 million users whose access token was stolen but your account was never actually accessed with it.
See An Example Below
So what should you do if you were hacked?
So what should you do if you were hacked?
1. You don’t necessarily have to change your Facebook password or credit card info as there’s no evidence that data was accessed in the attack
2. Watch out for spam or scam calls, emails, or messages as your contact info could have been sold to unscrupulous businesses
3. Be on alert for phishing attempts that may try to email you and get you to sign in to one of your online accounts on a fake page that will steal your data. If you get a suspicious email that looks like it’s from Facebook, you can check here to see if it’s legitimate
4. If you’re in group B who had their bio info accessed, you may want to contact your bank or cell phone provider and add additional security layers such as a pin code since hackers may have enough biographical info to perform social engineering attacks where they pretend to be you and use stolen data to answer security questions and gain access.
My Account Isn't Hacked Yet?
Yes your account may not be hacked yet, but remember that you can also be a victim. Be security cautious
Send this to your contacts and don't get people scammed through you.
"Hi, you may actually get some curios message or second friend request from me, be informed that Facebook is experiencing security breach for now, and their experts are working so hard to stop many users from being hacked. Except i inform you on an authentication basis please confirm am the one before replying. kindly forward this to your contacts too to avoid being hacked".
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