FACEBOOK HACKER | HACKING FACEBOOK ACCOUNT IN MINUTES AND ITS PREVENTION
How to hack a Facebook account online?
Hacking Facebook / Facebook Hacker is one of the most searched and hot topics around the Internet, like Gmail hacker. We have prepared a detailed list of how hackers can hack someone’s Facebook account easily in just a few minutes and how could we prevent the same. For your information, this is 4000+ words article with a lot of useful information, so it is not possible for most of you to read the complete article right now. We have created a PDF of all the techniques listed below for offline download, therefore you can store it on your mobile or computer to read whenever you get time.
Being a FB white hat hacker, I get following questions frequently from the people:
- Is there any online Facebook cracker tool?
- Where can I get FB hacking software from?
- Is there any free Facebook password finder?
- How can I hack someone’s facebook account easily?
To the best of my knowledge, there is no such tool. You won’t be able to find it anywhere. However, if you google it, you would find many websites claiming that they are providing free hack tool either online or offline, but you cannot download the password file without completing a survey. Even after going through a tiresome process ofcompleting a survey, you get nothing in the end. These things are posted only with the intention of making money. Don’t waste your precious time in searching such hack tool.
If you want to know how hackers can hack someone’s Facebook account, please go ahead and read the techniques listed below. The most successful method among all of these techniques is PHISHING. Phishing enables someone with no or little technical knowledge to hack Facebook account’s password easily in just a few minutes.
Check out this phishing guide to know more about PHISHING!
Some of the techniques listed below are not applicable only to FB, rather they are applicable to all daily used internet websites, such as Google, Twitter, Yahoo etc.
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This article is written with the aim of educating people about how hacking works and how should they prevent it. Please don’t use these techniques for malicious purposes.
12 ways to hack someone’s Facebook account | Prevention and Safety Measures – 2017
Phishing is the most common technique being used for hacking FB passwords. It is very easy for someone who is having little technical knowledge to get a phishing page done. That is why phishing is so popular. Many people have become a victim of Phishing page due to its trustworthy layout and appearance.
How does phishing work?
In simple words, phishing is a process of creating a duplicate copy of the reputed website’s page with the intention of stealing user’s password, or other sensitive information like credit card details. In our topic, it means creating a page which perfectly looks like Facebook login page but in a different URL like facebookcom, or any URL which pretends to be legit. When a user lands on such a page, he/she might think that is the real Facebook login page, asking him/her to provide his/her username and password. So, the people who do not find phishing page suspicious might enter their username & password. The password information will be sent to the Facebook hacker who created the phishing page. At the same time, the victim gets redirected to original FB page.
Example: John is a programmer. He creates a FB login page with some scripts that enable him to get the username and password information. John puts this fake login page in . Peter is a friend of John. John sends a message to Peter, “Hey Peter, I have found a free trick to make money online easily, you should definitely take a look at. Peter navigates to the link and sees a Facebook login page. As usual, Peter enters his username and password of FB.
The hacking part
Immediately, the username and password of Peter was sent to John and Peter gets redirected to a money making tips page https://www.facebouk.com/make-money-online-tricks-tips-free.html. That’s all; Peter’s Facebook account is hacked.
Please note that phishing can be done by a third person through emails; that is how it happens most of the time. So always beware of phishing emails, else you may lose your Facebook account, or credit card details, or any other sensitive data. Learn more about phishing
How could you protect yourself against online FB phishing?
Hackers can reach you in many ways; email, personal messages, FB messages, website ads etc. Clicking any links from these messages would lead you to a Facebook login page. Whenever you find a FB login page, you should note only one thing which is URL. Because nobody can spoof/use Facebook URL except when there are some XSS zero day vulnerabilities, but that’s very rare.
- What is the URL you see in browser address bar?
- Is that really https://www.facebook.com/ (Trailing slash is very important, since it is the only separator in Google chrome to distinguish domain and sub domain. Check out the below examples to know the difference)?
- Is there a green color secure symbol (HTTPS) provided in the address bar?
Bearing these questions in mind should prevent you from getting hacked of online phishing pages. Also, see the below examples of phishing pages.
Some super perfect phishing pages are listed below.
SSL Certificates (HTTPS) can be obtained from many online vendors. A few vendors give SSL Certificate for Free for 1 year. It’s not a big deal for a novice to create a perfect phishing page like this. So, beware of it.
This is a normal FB Phishing page with some modification in the word Facebook.
2 Social Engineering
This is the second most common technique of hacking Facebook accounts. In fact, this method shouldn’t come under Hacking, since much knowledge is not required for this method. I am listing this method under hacking to ensure the list of most common techniques being used for FB account hacking in their respective order. Social engineering is basically a process of gathering information about someone, whose account you need to hack. The gathered information includes the date of birth, mobile number, boyfriend/girlfriend’s mobile number, nickname, mother’s name, native place etc.
How does Social Engineering work?
Security Question
Many websites have a common password reset option called Security Question. Most common security questions would be:
What is your nickname?
Who is your first-grade teacher?
What is your native place?
or
Any custom questions defined by the user.
Obtaining such information from the respective people might let us hack into their account. Facebook too provides security question as a password recovery option. So, if anyone gets to know the answer to it, they could hack account using forgot password option.
Most Common and Weak Passwords
Security Question does not let you get into others FB account easily. But, setting a weak password could easily allow any of your friends to hack your account.
What is a weak password in this scenario?
A password which can be easily guessed by a third person is called weak password.
Below are some of the most common passwords people tend to use on Facebook.
- Mobile Number
- Nickname / Name and Date of Birth Conjunction
- Boy Friend’s Mobile Number / Girl Friend’s Mobile Number – Most of the lovers
- Girl Friend’s / Boy Friend’s Name – Most of the lovers
- Boy or Girl Friend Name Combination
- Bike Number
- Unused / Old Mobile Number
- Pet Name
- Closest Person Name (can be friends too)
Now, be honest and comment here if you are one of the people who have any one of the common passwords mentioned above. Don’t forget to change your password before making a comment 
How can you protect yourself from Social Engineering?
Security Question
Don’t have a weak or familiar security question/answer. Therefore it should be known only to you. You can set your Facebook security question here. Additionally, FB provides an option called “Login Alerts” under Facebook Security Settings. You should add your mobile or email there to get notified whenever your Facebook account is logged in to a new or unknown device.
Most Common and Weak Passwords
It is very simple. Change your Facebook password now if you have any one of the weak passwords stated above.
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3 Plain Password Grabbing
This is another common method being used to steal Facebook user’s password. Most people are unaware of this method, but traditional hackers use this method to hack user accounts.
How does Plain Password Grabbing works?
In this method, the Facebook hacker/attacker targets a particularly low-quality website, where the victim is a member, and hacks their database to get the stored plain username & password of victim.
How could the hacker/attacker get access to Facebook?
Many of us use the same password for FB and some poorxyz.com. So, it’s easy for a Facebook hacker to get your password through the low-quality poorxyz.com.
In another scenario, the Facebook hacker/attacker creates a website with the intention of getting victim’s password. Whenever a user signs up or registers his account using email and creates a password, those details will get stored in their database of the hacker/attacher. So, hacker/attacker gets your email and password. Common people, who use same email and password for these kinds of low-quality websites, might end up getting their Facebook account hacked.
How could you protect yourself from Facebook Plain Password Grabbing?
You should never trust the third party low-quality websites. Even the passwords of popular websites, like LinkedIn, are getting hacked. So, never and ever trust the third party low-quality websites.
Most of the website developers are storing plain passwords in a database without even thinking about encryption or security. This makes Facebook hackers’ job easy, since the password is stored as plain text.
Best way to prevent this method is to have a unique password at least for websites that you really trust. Don’t use your FB password for any other website/portal, so your password will never get exposed.
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