[lightning18]

Have you experienced someone hacking your facebook or other social media accounts? What is your take on identity theft? I have a friend who experienced identity theft and she was used to steal money from a man who he thought was her. How do you protect your account from identity theft?

[LShun]

[quote="lightning18"]Have you experienced someone hacking your facebook or other social media accounts? What is your take on identity theft? I have a friend who experienced identity theft and she was used to steal money from a man who he thought was her. How do you protect your account from identity theft?[/quot

I haven't experienced my accounts being hacked before. There are a few ways to secure your account in my opinion:
1st. Use a strong password ( In my opinion, more than 12 character's, a mix of uppercase, lowercase characters, symbols and numbers )
2nd. Don't use dictionary words ( They are easily crackable )
3rd. Don't use the same password on all sites ( it doesn't always have to be different in my opinion, but it is risky to use the same for each site )

[grecy0905]

Have you experienced someone hacking your facebook or other social media accounts? What is your take on identity theft? I have a friend who experienced identity theft and she was used to steal money from a man who he thought was her. How do you protect your account from identity theft?

I know a certain person who was a victim before. He was shocked because he don't know how someone do it. I think we need to make our password to be complicated and nothing about our information should be incorporated with our password. Facebook owner even advised us to change our password every month if we can do so.

[yairhaim]

Facebook account of my friend got hacked month ago!
By anonymous!

[blair]

A few minutes ago I was trying to sign up with this new site I found but I felt a bit cautious and stopped when I was about to fill out the personal information page. I am not sure what they will do with that but who knows this might just be another scam site phishing for information.

On my social media account there was one attempt to login and was surprised to see that the country of origin is from .... I will not mention the name as I do not want people to associate hacking or identity theft with this country alone. We should be careful with clicking links and trying free offers or downloading apps and software from untrusted sources.

[maestro]

I personally have not encountered that, maybe because my account is not valuable enough for someone to take the effort to hack into my account. I am guessing those have their account hacked, must be very popular or pretty or handsome

[LShun]

A few minutes ago I was trying to sign up with this new site I found but I felt a bit cautious and stopped when I was about to fill out the personal information page. I am not sure what they will do with that but who knows this might just be another scam site phishing for information.

On my social media account there was one attempt to login and was surprised to see that the country of origin is from .... I will not mention the name as I do not want people to associate hacking or identity theft with this country alone. We should be careful with clicking links and trying free offers or downloading apps and software from untrusted sources.

There are many sites that often required you to key in your personal information such as name, age, e-mail address. These are quite basic compared to how Microsoft, and data collecting applications operating silently behind the scene. However, you can also key in a fake name or your initials to hide them.

[Allius]

Hello!It never happened to me such a situation. It is a very dull situation!
I think the best strategies to not happen that's never give your password to anyone and regularly exchange password as well.
However, it can still happen. There are hackers with an amazing ability. All it takes is a distraction ...

[mcliffi]

A guy hacked my account and wrote"am stupid".It was really bad since most of my friends though i had gone mad overnight.I had to change my email and password including my facebook names.

[castbound]

Yes.Actually my friend wanted to convience me that he knows how to hack Facebook accounts and he hacked my account.When I recovered my acc back he told me that he hacked it and gave me all the infos After that I knew that he could hack some accs But im totally sure that he hacked my account because of my poor password.

[Coinlv]

Have you experienced someone hacking your facebook or other social media accounts?

Yes, my facebook account was hacked 2 years ago. It was unknown person. I hate hackers.

[fab]

most are lammers are new people who are entering the world hacker now and the only thing you have to do is hack easy things,
but a lot of people who hacks facebook account to sell in large quantity

[mariaedelyn]

I had experienced it once on my facebook account. I had also experienced that a hacker is trying to hack my own account so I immediately change my password. I suggest that you change your password once a month. I have encountered some of the websites that they require for security question and I think it`s safe for the users.

[grecy0905]

A guy hacked my account and wrote"am stupid".It was really bad since most of my friends though i had gone mad overnight.I had to change my email and password including my facebook names.

My friend's FB got hacked and the hacker put a lot of porn and nude images on his wall. We all know he was became a victim because he is not like that.

[LShun]

A guy hacked my account and wrote"am stupid".It was really bad since most of my friends though i had gone mad overnight.I had to change my email and password including my facebook names.

My friend's FB got hacked and the hacker put a lot of porn and nude images on his wall. We all know he was became a victim because he is not like that.

I agree, one of my friend also has this problem too. Facebook and many social media sites can be easily targeted and intercepted by hackers. I guess the word, knowledge is power still is true in this world.

[Katriona_22]

It didn't happened to me. Thanks God, but one of my friends Facebook account was hacked by someone and they posted something a very indecent word in her Facebook. I felt bad for her.

[chikitta]

I have never experienced but a friend of mine was a victim once and it was not so good. i think you can put a strong password i guess to protect it.

[ToFyHD]

i never got hacked im lucky

[mimi88jade]

I haven't encountered these bad thing but I am afraid if it will happen to me someday. that is why I make sure to stay vigilant in using public wifi and cafe's, or not to use because it is prone to hacking and bad people.

[serbog]

No, no one has ever hacked my social media account ever.