What to do if your facebook page has been hacked

Q: Should I delete my Facebook account if its been hacked?

Facebooks policies on disabling or deleting hacked, unused or unconfirmed accounts. Removing hacked, unused, or unconfirmed accounts helps reduce the amount of potential abuse on our platform and protects the privacy, integrity and security of your data and your account.

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What are you supposed to do when you get hacked on Facebook?
Can you recover a Facebook page that was hacked?
Should I delete my Facebook account if its been hacked?
What is at risk if your Facebook account is hacked?

What are you supposed to do when you get hacked on Facebook?

If your account has been hacked.

Change your password right away — that's your first step, if you still have the power to do so. If you can't log in, request a password reset. ... .

Report the weird behavior to Facebook, so they can help stop it happening to others..

Turn on two-factor authentication..

Can you recover a Facebook page that was hacked?

The best thing you can do is contact a Page admin or someone with Facebook access with full control to the Page and ask them to add you back. There are different kinds of Page roles and access, and only Page admins or people with Facebook access to a Page with full control can add or remove people.

Should I delete my Facebook account if its been hacked?

Facebook's policies on disabling or deleting hacked, unused or unconfirmed accounts. Removing hacked, unused, or unconfirmed accounts helps reduce the amount of potential abuse on our platform and protects the privacy, integrity and security of your data and your account.

What is at risk if your Facebook account is hacked?

Your hacked Facebook account might also send unwanted emails, change your profile information, or even change your email address and password. These are all bad scenarios and things you'll want to avoid. Another common Facebook hack sends messages over Messenger to your friends, encouraging them to click on a link.