Investigating Facebook Account Takeovers

Background I was chilling in my workspace, solving TryHackMe challenges, when one of my friends sent me a video. In the video, I saw that one of our mutual friend’s Facebook accounts had been compromised. A minute later, the friend whose Facebook had been hacked called me. I asked him what had happened, and he simply told me that he had been logged out of Facebook and no longer had access.I advised him to try recovering his Facebook account by resetting the password. I also reported to Facebook that my friend’s account had been hacked and informed other friends to report the incident as well. ...

February 19, 2025 · 612 words · Sonam Tamang