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

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.