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loladoreen


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Hacking
#28594840 - 12/23/23 06:22 AM (4 months, 24 days ago) |
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Someone keep trying to get into my facebook. I have not used facebook in a few years. I changed my password and they keep requesting a new password. What can I do?
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loladoreen


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I changed the password to my email and fb account.
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koraks
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That's pretty much all you have to do. You could try and raise the issue with Facebook/Meta support, but I doubt they'll do anything about it.
One obvious way of fixing the issue of course is to just delete your FB account altogether. If you haven't used it, why bother keeping it around?
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loladoreen


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Re: Hacking [Re: koraks]
#28595575 - 12/23/23 05:42 PM (4 months, 23 days ago) |
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I need to get my pictures off first. Its a time capsule Mainly of memories of my son who passed away. It's comforting knowing I can go read things he said to me.
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Lithop
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loladoreen said: I need to get my pictures off first. Its a time capsule Mainly of memories of my son who passed away. It's comforting knowing I can go read things he said to me.
Good call on the pics. Perhaps, have yourself or a friend copy and paste/ screenshot your sons posts & messages. Then, you have an offline archive of them to keep and there's no worry about needing facebook to access them or could view his posts/memories without the branding of the site even visible etc. Just a thought.
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loladoreen


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It's been deactivated for a few years I get emails asking to reset my password I reported them Its an uncomfortable feeling I use messenger for family
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Northerner
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What is likely is that your email has been scraped in another hack and criminals are attempting to use that email and password to access your social media.
You can check your email for breaches at https://haveibeenpwned.com
My main email has been breached 15 times on different sites that is known about by that site, which highlights even more the necessity to use unique and complex passwords for important accounts.
No need to worry about the reset requests, they don't mean anything if the password is unique and complex, and your email password is unique and complex.
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loladoreen


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Thank you
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Its Pat
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If you haven't done so yet just delete it!
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George white 282
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Excellent advice @Northerner I've used this website many times and refer it to everyone I can, my primary email was comprised a very long time ago, that was the age before password managers were a option and one email and password was used for every service.
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