As Facebook grows, hacked accounts are becoming more frequent. It is a natural problem for any computer system that increases in size. More users means more targets, which means more interest in hacking facebook.
The best way to fix a hacked Facebook account is never get hacked in the first place. Don’t choose a password that includes your birthdate, your address, your phone number, or some other easily guessable combination of letters and digits. Choose something random, write it down for a few weeks until you memorize it, then throw away the paper.
The second best way to fix a hacked Facebook account is to sign up for a service like ours that backs up your Facebook account regularly for less than $5/month. As of mid June 2009, we will support Facebook backup, so if you lose your account, we can easily restore your friends, pictures, notes, and videos so that you don’t have to waste time re-doing everything you spent months or years building. You can even download a copy of your Facebook backup to your PC or Mac so that you have it stored locally.
Finally, if you are hacked, and haven’t backed up your account, the best thing to do is use use this account recovery form from Facebook. The company does not publish any data on the success of recovering hacked accounts, or how long the process takes, and a web search on the topic returns mixed results.
If you want to protect your Facebook profile and make sure you don’t lose the important data you upload, sign up for our service, and protect all your online accounts with regular, automated backups.
Below is a screenshot of the backup options available on our Facebook backup application.
Facebook App Settings
