You Have Been Hacked! Protect Your Account!
- Hwee Har
- Feb 20, 2019
- 3 min read
Updated: Feb 25, 2019
A: Hey, Hwee Har, your Instagram being hacked by someone!
Me: Impossible lah, nobody knows my password.
A: I no tell lie, your Instagram has controlled by someone and that person change your profile picture.
When I open my Instagram, I found that my Instagram cannot log in. At the moment, I quickly text to my friend and ask her screenshot for me. I felt terrify because that is first time I being hacked. I successfully use Facebook to log in to my Instagram. My photo were all deleted by that hacker, and the person post his/her own photo.
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My account becomes as above after all. The hacker deletes my followers and following person. I felt very sad when I am forced to open a new account. To avoid this issue happened, I would like to share to you how to protect yourself from hacked by other people.
According to Melissa Schorr , not everyone online is real. There is a different reason that someone could be online fakester. Some of them are just feeling bored and trying to provoke the reaction.
Here are some tips for keeping your accounts secure:
1. You must remember to close the account that you are not using. This is because hackers can leverage and access your accounts, such as your email.
2. You must always keep your mobile apps updated and make sure that your apps are always in the latest version because you will be protected by security patches from the newest known treats.
3. You can use a ordinary email for your social media accounts because hackers won't access to any your valuable information when you create a new email when you are compromised.
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Below the photo include :
1. Where do fake social account come from
2. How many fake accounts
3. Where are the most fakers
4. Examples
5. Less sinister reason to create a fake account
Source: Research by mordecai.holtz
The below statistic is about the issue happened when fake profile want to connect
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Many users will think that they are safer and wrongly assuming that a platform's privacy settings will protect them from fake profiles. Besides, there is some people who is careless accept requests assuming their privacy control protect them from risk with other connections who have not set their controls as high.
Nowadays, many teenagers are involved in this issue, so I would like to share what does your teenagers need to know to protect themselves.
1. Teenagers should quickly report it when being hacked to avoid hacker from control your account.
2. Teenagers should check with mutual trusted friends before relying on a new cyber friend, do not assume everyone online is who they say they are.
3. Parents should take the issue which is teens spend their time online (up to 9 hours a day) seriously.
4. 25% of teens have met their mate on social media without knowing them in real life. So, you must make sure that your teens are careful of romantic relationships online.
After all, I hope that you learn a lot from my blog. The increasing of this issue really make many people worried and I hope you can follow the step above to aware the problem happened again.
To know more about information, click the link below
https://www.crisisprevention.com/Blog/February-2016/Catfishing
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OMG I can't believe there 60 million fake accounts in FB.
Last week, my friends' account were "copied" by someone else in Instagram. The account follows a friend and when the friend accept, the person ask for phone number. At the same time, he or she will use the same profile picture and username of the friend and does the same thing over and over again. We have no idea the person is. But what we can is report the fake account.
Yes, I experienced it before, when I was still in secondary school, my first instagram account was hacked by someone unknown. That time, I felt sad for almost a week as all my photos gone after I claimed by the account. Btw, thanks for the tips for keeping my account safe!