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I’ve been hacked! Fast way to change my Facebook password?

April 27, 2015 / Dave Taylor / Facebook Help / 2 Comments

I think I’ve been hacked! How do I go into my Facebook account and quick change my password?

The first thing to do if you are worried that you’ve been hacked and someone’s broken into your Facebook account is to log out every other device that’s currently logged in to your account. This will, of course, affect your smartphone, your work computer, any Apple TV units or other systems that might be hooked into Facebook and even your smartwatch if you have a Samsung Gear S, Moto 360, Apple Watch or similar.

It’s all worth it, however, because if you’re right, every minute you leave things as-is offers another minute that a potential bad guy could be posting as you, monkeying with your settings or trying to change your password or security questions.

Not good.

To start, then, go onto Facebook and pull up the main menu from the top right:

main facebook menu

Choose Settings, then Security from the left menu list.

Part-way down you’ll find this:

where you are logged in to facebook

Click on Edit and it’ll open up and show you where you’re connected:

what devices systems logged in facebook

See the link “End All Activity”? You probably do not want to click on that one: just in case you can’t get back into your account again, right?

Instead go through one by one and choose “End Activity” for all other devices and systems.

*phew*

Now let’s change your password!

On the left menu, choose General instead of “Security” and you’ll get to your General Facebook Account Settings, as shown here:

general settings > Password

There are more options, but you want to click on “Edit” adjacent to the Password entry.

As you can see, I was lazy and hadn’t updated my password in over a year. Not good. And now fixed!

Once you choose to edit your password, it’s what you would suspect:

how to change your facebook password

Enter your current password and a new – complicated! – password twice and click “Save Changes”.

fb passwd change update saved

Done.

If you can’t change your password because it’s refusing to accept your existing password, then you’ll want to go through the Facebook security process to recover access. First step: make sure your email address is correct and that your recovery questions are intact, then indicate that you’ve forgotten your password and need to have a recovery link mailed to you. Good luck!

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2 comments on “I’ve been hacked! Fast way to change my Facebook password?”

  1. Chris Shannon says:
    July 19, 2021 at 2:43 pm

    Why not just change the password first, then log out all users!!
    You’ll see what sessions were open. I had some looney tune person in China logged in when I got hacked. After I changed the password, then I logged out ALL sessions.

    Reply
  2. LL says:
    August 17, 2015 at 6:50 pm

    Hi Dave and ty for all! About 3 months ago while on FB, I got a window saying that I posted something bad back in April from my acct. I don’t remember doing any such thing, and giving me one week’s time to verify my name with a photo ID and my address such as a driver’s license, etc. They also said that if my actual name was different from my user name that it would be automatically switched to reflect the real name ( I use a shortened nickname similar to Bill as in William if you will) I said “Whoa” what is this? Are they kidding or have I been hacked? I ignored it and a week later my acct was suspended until ID verification. I sure as hell am not going send a copy of my driver’s license or the like to FB of all organizations, let alone anyone else online. Have I been hacked? Are they for real? I must say, I don’t live my life for FB and really haven’t missed it except for 2 games. I had a total of 19 “friends”, mostly fellow gamers and a few real friends.
    Thank you,
    LL.

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