The present-day hackers go as far as changing the email and password associated with a Facebook account to prevent the account owner from recovering. This article will give you tips on how to recover a hacked Facebook account with changed email and password. In the past two weeks, as a digital security blogger, I encountered scenarios where users had their login and recovery details changed because the hacker wanted to lock them out of their Facebook account completely. In case your credentials were not changed, kindly check the link below to recover your Facebook Account
How to recover a hacked Facebook account with changed email and password
So how do we recover a hacked Facebook account with changed email and password? First you must be able to acknowledge that your account has been hacked. Next week’s article will be exposing the signs that your Facebook Account has been hacked. Today let’s focus on the fact that there is a Facebook account that happens to be yours or for your friend and hackers have changed its details and made sure that they utilize every bit of it by fooling your friends into clicking links that could lead to them releasing their details.
Step 1: Discover if your email and password have been changed
Recovery needs acceptance. It is very important to accept the fact your Facebook account has been hacked. Some people may at that moment think that they probably just forgot their password. However, it is not bad to doubt because it is very possible to forget a password since we are humans. How do you know if your email has been changed?
- Go to your browser and search for https://facebook.com
- Type in your login details and pretend to login. If the login details have not been changed, you will be able to login but if they have been changed, you will not
- At that moment you have probably been told that the credentials are wrong. What you will do is click on forgot password
- Click search by your name or email instead. Type in your Facebook name and it will show a list of names. Choose your account from the list
- It will display the email address that was changed but with asterisks
Step 2: Ask for help from Facebook to be able to recover your account
Facebook recognizes the devices that your account previously logged in. Go to the Facebook help center and follow the tips to discover the login details for your Facebook account. Simply search on google for Facebook Support and select the first link
If you are successful in recovering your account. Click the link below to adopt safety measures to avoid further loss of your account. Remember that even after you have learnt how to recover a hacked Facebook account with changed email and password, the hacker will still attempt to gain back what he stole because he selfishly considers your account his
Step 3: Hack into the hacker’s email
This will apply if Step 2 has failed. You may need to employ a digital security expert to recover a hacked Facebook account with changed email and password if the worst comes to the worst. In most cases, hackers are in a hurry to get into the victim’s account so they create very simple accounts with simple passwords. Someone with less hacking skills may not be able to hack into a Google account. Digital security experts are able to guess as many passwords as possible and even follow procedures to break into the account. Just in case you want to try your luck. Adopt the points below to log into the hacker’s email
- Analyze the email name very well and its characters. Try and guess as many passwords as possible. If the hacker’s email is nmjkl@gmail.com, then it’s most likely that hijklmn is the password
- Use a password cracker if it is hard. If you are finding it hard to hack the Facebook account, you may want to use a tool that generates possible passwords
- Try and log into the email with the passwords. If you are successful, you may want to bypass the two-factor authentication by using your phone
- Once you manage to access the hacker’s email; change all the details in the email. The first thing to do is change the recovery number, password, and recovery email and then log out the hacker from all his devices. Once you do this, you will peacefully change your Facebook account details
Once you are able to access the hacker’s email. change your Facebook password by pretending to forget your password. Facebook will send a reset code to that email and you will be able to log in.
Hacking is illegal and should not be used to harm anyone. Kindly avoid using the above tips to harm people. They have been listed for you to be able to recover a Facebook account and not use for hacking into the emails of innocent people
Ensure that you change your recovery details on Facebook by putting your details
Finally, delete the Gmail account of the hacker so that he doesn’t use it to compromise other accounts
How to stay safe when you recover a hacked Facebook account with changed email and password
- Set up a strong password
- Set up a two-factor authentication for your Facebook account
- Avoid logging into your Facebook account on public devices like cafes
- Stop clicking on suspicious links especially those in phishing campaigns
You will also need to learn how to fight phishing because it is one way through which facebook accounts are hacked. Click the button below to view my previous posts on phishing