Someone hacked my facebook account!

[Floweryfields]

I went to go on facebook today and my password was changed - so I discovered an email from the facebook people to say they had detected suspicious behaviour on my account and locked and changed password.
So I reset it and discovered someone has replaced my profile pic with an aetheist message - as my page states I am a christian.
How would someone do that?

So I got a bit freaked out and am currently scanning my whole computer and have just changed all of my passwords for various things!

This happen to anyone else?

[~clover~]

No, but I hope thats all that happens
Thats scary!

[Arimeh]

Wow.... thats scary

And you gotta think - WHY.. why would some random person just pick on another random person!?!?!

If I was a hacker - I'd go the banks at least.. lol

[Visitor8]

I would say it wasn't a random person... more someone you know who could guess your PW or knows your email password or something.

[~Trish~]

Oh my goodness! Why would someone want to do that?

How scary and violating for you .

I hope you have no further problems with them.

[Rivlas]

I hope you reported this to Facebook.

Some people need a life!!

[mybabylove]

This has happened to my & my DH as well....
Just change your p/word.

My email account was also done a while back, but I know who that was....& Some of my other forum accounts have been hijacked from a stalker obviously..... LOL

[Floweryfields]

Well, no one knows my email password other than me... so it's not that and I doubt they could've guessed my password - which was a combination of things personal to me only.
I don't know, facebook was aware of it, infact they picked it up before I did and locked my account, which is reassuring anyway.

[Visitor8]

I doubt it's a computer hacker. They wouldn't be hacking facebook, instead banks and stuff.

[TheBlackDahliaMurder]

Actually, it is a hacker, and it really could be anyone, from a friend to a stranger my friend is having the same problem right now and i am currently tracking the kid down.

Also, you would be surprised how many kids hack Facebook/Myspace/AIM/ect. everyday, people just dont have lives anymore.

[Madissun]

Wow... Thats really scary!

[kitten2b]

I Had my hotmail and ebay accounts hacked into a while back - very inconvenient

[rhyb]

How scary! I think my hotmail has been hacked at some point cz now it spams people everytime I sign in to msn.

[Nelle]

That might be a virus/bug Rhyb, as opposed to a hacker. Not sure what to do about it though, I haven't had those sort of problems in ages! *touches wood nervously*

[luna moth]

Your password wouldn't be "guessed" so much as a program would go through various combos for them (by them I mean the scum that did this) That's why it's always recommended to use symbols and numbers in your password. A trick I use is to replace "a" with @ and "i" with 1, used in an unlikely word, like stickytape = st1ckyt@pe
Two friends of mine have had their facebook profiles hacked, and they started posting Viagra-type spam advertisements.

Good luck!