Even technically sophisticated friends are getting hacked on Facebook, and how to make sure your hacked account is recovered.

Usually, accounts are hacked because someone gets a hold of your password. If someone gets into your Facebook account, they have access to a lot of other things, which is bad for Facebook.

If your account has been hacked

Your account can behacked and take many different shapes. Maybe someone is sending you messages on your behalf, posting as you, or doing something weird.

If you can still log in, you're in luck.

If you still have the power to do so, you should change your password immediately. Request a password reset if you can log in. It is1-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-65561-6556 There is a way of dealing with that.

They can help stop the weird behavior by reporting it to Facebook.

Go to your security settings and see if you can identify yourself. Press the three-dot menu if you don't know a location or a device. This will log you out so that you can further secure your account.

You should check to see if any apps or websites have access to your Facebook account. If there's something you don't know, hit remove.

Check the e-mail addresses Facebook has listed for you in your general settings. Remove anything that isn't yours.

If you know that hackers don't have access to your account, you should change your password. It should have letters, numbers and special characters. Don't use your password from another place. If you want to keep track of all your different passwords, you should use a password manager.

Two-factor authentication should be turned on. Even if your password was stolen, they can log in without having access to your phone or authenticator app.

Change your email password when something weird happens to your security and/or social media. It's bad to lose access to your social accounts, but it's even worse if you lose your email account, so changing your password every few months is a good idea.

How to prevent getting hacked

The most common way that a Facebook account is compromised is by tricking you into giving the hackers your password. You can get a Messenger message from a friend on Facebook that says something like "Oh wow did you see who died?" with a link. You click on the link and it looks like Facebook, but then you are asked to log in again. You think nothing of it, and you type in your password. The site that you just gave your password to isn't actually Facebook, and now they have your password.

The best way to avoid this is to use two-factor authentication. Are you logging into a site that starts with Facebook? Don't type in your password if it looks like a social networking site. If you are using a web browser, the safest thing to do is to type in Facebook.com into your URL bar.

The Facebook app has a browser built in. It's possible that you are in the Facebook app, but it could ask you for a password. If you are already in the app, why would it ask you to log in? Don't type in your password if it seems weird.

You should check the apps that have access to your Facebook account occasionally. If you don't use an app in a while and don't think you need it, then you should uninstall it. You can add it again later.