Social networking websites are very popular. So are malicious programs that hijack people’s accounts. This week’s article looks at how this happens and the impact that it has. Go to the link below and read the article. Write a reflective comment that shows you have read the article, expresses your views, and addresses my questions.
Have you ever had an experience like those described in the article or do you know someone who has had such an experience? If so, how was the account compromised and what happened? Why do you think that people hack other people’s accounts? What advice would you give to avoid having this happen? What would you recommend doing if this does happen?
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Someone hacked my MSN messenger account about a year ago. That person logged on to my MSN account and changed my display picture and my display ID to inappropriate things and sending viruses and weird things to my friends to embarrass and humiliate me. It was very embarrassing and humiliating because when I logged on, everyone was asking me why did I do those inappropriate things. I was apologizing to everyone by sending messages and calling them. I think people hack other people’s account to embarrass and humiliate that person, or to send viruses, advertise, and make money. To prevent from getting hacked, you should change your password more often than usual and also, you need to mix the word and the numbers for your password instead of just putting the numbers. If your account is hacked, you should tell your friends and people that your account is hacked, before they get humiliated. Also you can use I.P. searcher to find who hacked your account.
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I have had experiences like the ones in the article we read about social network hacking, and I also know people who have had it happen to them. When my Facebook account was hacked, the hacker sent people messages about videos that they were supposedly in and a link. When the person who the link was sent to clicked on it, their account was also under the control of their account as well. In my opinion, people hack other’s social accounts because they hope that they can find something useful, and in the meantime, want to wreck havoc between that person and their friends. I think they need to find a better use of their time. My advice for people to avoid being hacked is to make their password something that is not easily guessed, but not too hard to remember. You shouldn’t tell a lot of people what it is, or else it will get around easily and you will get hacked. If it has happened to you, I would suggest changing their password and apologizing and explain to people who have gotten a message or a link to something from your hacker.
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• Yes something like this did happen to me before on my facebook account. One day when I logged into facebook I received a lot of messages in my inbox from different friends complaining about me sending them messages. I was confused because I didn’t remember me sending messages out so I found out someone hack my facebook. To fix this problem I sent everybody messages saying that someone has been in on my account and don’t click the link! After that I changed my password and my email account then the hacking stopped. To my opinion people hack other people’s accounts because they have nothing else better to do, to get important information that they can use like credit numbers, or etc. Advice for other people I would say be safe and don’t click on very link someone sends you because it can make your computer crash or run slow so be careful to what websites you go to and to get firewall or anytime of computer programming that protects viruses. If it does happen tell people who received the messages explaining the problem.
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One time when I was on Facebook, I saw a link from one of my friends; it said that there was a funny video on the website. So I clicked the link in hopes of a funny video to make my boredom vanish, but what I got was an adult website which I promptly closed. My friend had been hit by a virus. I was forced to delete him as a friend, and he had to delete his own account. I think that there are some people who are so bored and have no life, that the only way they can find amusement is by putting others in misery. Kind of like a real world bully, these are the bullies of the Internet. The advice that I would give is this: most of the viruses just say the same thing over and over to introduce the link, so if you see that thing to introduce the link, be cautious, and don’t click on it. Also, change your password to a complicated one or one that scores very strong on the meter that is given on most sites nowadays. If your account has gotten a virus, then unfortunately, I think you must delete it. If you are very attacked to your account, there is another way, send all your friends a message that say you have a virus, and tell them not to click on your links. This should ensure that nobody else would have the same fate, at least not because of you.
-Nadim
I have never been hacked. On-the-other-hand, I have received so many e-mails especially in facebook saying “is this really you!” I don’t open them because I know better. I know some people who had such an experience. Some of them have reacted badly and some don’t really care. One of my friends had his MSN hacked and he kept sending very weird messages to everyone through chat about a certain “picture” that he thought was cool but, he was another person who didn’t really care and got another MSN account. I think people hack other people’s accounts for two reasons, 1. That the hackers want to humiliate someone and 2. To lead people to sites that pay referral fees for traffic. A piece of advice that I would give to people to avoid having this happen to them is be careful of what you open, look and the title, if its sounds weird like “ is this you?!” and has a link to a weird site ignore them and if you are not sure contact that person to make sure that they actually sent it. Another piece of advice is to get software that blocks such things like firewall. If someone does hack your account get help, end that account and created another one or, make stronger password filled with phrases, numbers etc… thus it makes it harder to hack.
No, I never had such an experience or no anyone who did.
I think people hack other’s account for either fun, revenge, because they want to, or something.
I would advice people to be really careful with password etc.
Delete everything and take a break and maybe later re do it taking more precautions.
Many of my friends have had their Facebook hacked, and the “hackers” started sending many offensive messages to people. Many of these friends were not able to deal with the hackers or restore their accounts, and therefore were forced to make a new one. Also, in MSN Messenger, where their accounts were infected with viruses that kept sending links to me as soon as I signed in. I never clicked them after I became familiar with them and I do not know till now how they have dealt with them. Thank god, I did not have an experience like those described in the article. People hack other people’s accounts for many reasons that include: getting important information such as credit cards, bank accounts, and personal information, advertising, or to have fun. Some advice that I would give is never go on or click any links that you do not, and to always be cautious on the internet, and always make your account passwords complex, making them comprise of letters and numbers that are in no order. If this does happen, I would recommend deleting the account immediately and installing a virus protection software such as: an antivirus or a firewall software. And again always be cautious and don’t go on sites you don’t know.
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This sounds surprising but no such incident has ever happened to me. I came across some traps that nearly caught me but deleted them.
Only deadbeat no-life losers would hack, unless told to by a deadbeat no-life loser who doesn't want to get his hands dirty. To avoid these things happening, constantly change the password & think of something simple, unthinkable but memorable. This works on all social networks.
I recommend having McAfee, Avast or some other strong virus protector system on for protection.
I have had a similar experience like this happen to me. I was chatting on MSN like I normally do and some friend of mine sends me this strange message saying, "Oh my god! Is this you? How could you?! Click on the link to see your photo..." I was surprised and a bit scared. I clicked on the link and there was nothing, instead I got a virus on the computer and my chat began to send random rude messages out and the same link I received. So when my friends clicked on the link they got the virus too and as I expected they got mad. I eventually had to fix the computer and change my account and apologize to everyone with a long explanation. You need to be careful with what you download, who you chat with, and what links you go on because there are people out there who enjoy messing around with people's lives. As for being hacked, I haven't been hacked, nor do I want to. The internet is a dangerous place and we need to take care and make sure we have strong and difficult passwords. To avoid things like these you can install protection soft wares like McAfee or Firewall. It's been helping me since my incident.
My MSN account has been hacked before. The hacker used my e-mail to send harming things to other people. I think people hack others’ accounts to embarrass them if the hacker knows him/her or if the hacker doesn’t know the person, he probably does that just “for fun.” I would advice everyone to create a strong password that can’t be guessed by others, also change the password every while. The password should be made of random letters and numbers that make it harder for the hacking programs to steal, and for people to guess. I would recommend the people who get hacked to announce that for everyone so they wouldn’t get embarrassed by the comments the hacker would make or the e-mails he would send.
No, I never had an experience like the one in the article, but my sister had such an experience. Her facebook account got hacked when she clicked on a link that said "You look so funny in this picture, LOL". After the account was hacked, the hacker using my sister's account, sent the same links to her friends. It was really embarrasing for her, so she had to delete her account and create a new one and apologize to her friends. I think people hack other people's accounts just for their own entertainmetn. To avoid this from happening, people should never click on links, and they should have a reliable anti-virus program. However, if such thing occurs, I think you should delete your account.
I can't honestly say that I've ever had an experience akin to those described in the article (which by the way was revealing, aluring in a few places and also very informative). However that being said the simple fact that this event hasn't happened doesn't in and of itself mean that it wont or at could still happen. I actually conker with my classmates in part and otherwise I disagree quite strongly on other points. One reason why I think that people hack in to or break in to other peoples accounts would be access secret information such as credit card information and similar information. But I would go further and say that the information that is stolen from the internet could be one of several possibilities. The first of which would be that it could be outdated information. Secondly would be that it could be either sensitive information or even worse it could be classified information. I have several pieces of advice in terms of preventing such instances as those described by my classmates and those described in the article. Firstly I suggest avoiding making an account on particularly vulnerable sites such as Facebook and Twitter. Secondly I suggest being very careful about what you say on any mass communication site so if you do get hacked nothing too damaging will be taken. Thirdly I reccommend being very cautious about who you include in your friends list and also to keep your list to a set number of people. This is because if you have a limited friend pool from which betrayal can then the odds of it coming in the first place are decreased. As for my recommendation should you get hacked or some similiar happening then you should do one of the precautions mentioned above.
I have had a such a similar experience, one day i was trying to log into my Facebook acount and all it said that the password
isn't correct i tried it several times, and i was 100% sure that its my password. then i tried to click on the "forgot your password" link
and it told me its associated with your email. i went to my email to check and try to fix it, but again my email was hacked too, i
couldn't access it. The hacker used my e-mail, and Facebook at the same time and used badly on my name. Then one day my sister was on her account and she found me online she chated with the me "the hacker" and all he did is saying sorry and gave me the new password!!
perhaps after that i changed my password and cleared up the sitauation to everyone who got somehting bad from me.
i think people or hackers hack others accounts for many reasons, such as for fun by going to other people's private information, advertising for specific products, or they have some problems that they love to screw and mess with people's personal things..
i would advice to create a strong password that is hard for hackers to guess, not click any links that your not sure
about, and to be careful with who you chat. in the end those hackers have the ability to take over anything the want using specific codes that we are not familiar with. as for me getting hacked, i recommend to be so much careful, and installing an anti virus protection. Internet is a very helpful source of information that is dangerous in the same time.
Yes, I have had an experience similar to the ones described in the article. Last year my msn was hacked, the hacking caused all my contacts to receive an instant message of a link that their name was tagged in. I ended apologizing for the hacking… I don't think there is a general reason people hack other accounts, it could be to receive money (as mentioned in the article) or just out of plane boredom, although neither is a reason or an excuse to hack accounts. To avoid being hacked I would recommend having a difficult password, one that could be personal and only you may know, I would also recommend that you do not click on links u do not trust, or do not know. If your account is hacked I recommend that you either make a new one with a more difficult password, or change the password of your current account more often.
-Leen
Yes, of course I’ve been scammed/hacked before but it is slightly different from the article. Once I was at an internet café and I was working on my project because I don’t have internet at home (at that time). While I was working on my project I decided to take a little break and go into Facebook and MSN. About a week passed, I tried to log into my MSN again and it said “Wrong password” at first I thought I just made some silly typo in my password so I tried again. After a few tries I could feel the chill on my spine and I could not have believe that I got hacked. I asked myself several of times, why would anyone want to hack my MSN account? The first thing that came to my mind was revenge. Someone in real life that hates me probably was the one that hacked me ( that’s what I thought ) but in truth, the computer that I used in the internet café has a virus called “key logger” that’s how I lost my MSN account. In my opinion I think that people steal other people msn account for 1. For revenge 2. For fun 3. For stalking. My advice for people who are out there who still did not experience the same thing I did is 1. I suggest you don’t give out your password for anything to anyone 2. I don’t recommend you using public computers (unless you really need to) 3. While typing in your password, watch around you if there is anyone staring at your hands. But if someone really hack you then first, don’t panic. If you your account really got hi-jacked then you should just accept the truth, its not like it’s the end of the world, you can always make a new one. Advice: don’t trust anyone, because most of my friend also experienced this kind of event already
I have had something recent that has happened to me, although I was able to avoid it! What has happened was that I received a forwarded message on facebook form a friend of mine. It was a link to a website about a funny video. I didn’t open it because I thought that it was a waste of my time. So, in a few days, a lot of people started commenting on it about how it contains a virus. So to my luck, I hadn’t opened it, and saved my computer from getting a virus! I think people hack other people’s accounts to just annoy them, or if they are bored and have nothing better to do. Either way, it isn’t right to do it and it’s inappropriate because it just isn’t fair. What I would advise people to do to avoid something like this to happen is to get a good antivirus service, and to search trough it the file that you want to open! Just to be sure, so no conflict would happen of you receiving a virus or being hacked even! If it does happen, report it to the site that you got hacked on. SO they would cancel your account as well as his account so he would not get all your information, and so he would get what he deserves
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thank god that i hadn't experienced any hacking incident yet , hope i will never. many of my friends have had their facebook or msn accounts hacked , usually because they give their password to people.i got cussed at buy whom i thought was my friend but turns out to be a hacker. i would suggest not to give your password away - that is why they call it a password (secret) :P
If you think about it, there is actually no sense of hacking someones account. For the hackers it of course makes sense because they just do it either because they are terribly bored and don't have a life or they just want to find something that they could use for further purposes, no matter if it's any personal data, any photos, or just the next big party.
Luckily, my Facebook account has not been hacked... yet! But I know a lot of people who's account has been hacked. I keep on getting new messages in my inbox with the subject "You've been caught naked" or "Look at you in this party" or things like that.
My MSN/Windows Live was hacked once though, but luckily I was online at the same time and I saw it when I got logged out with the message that someone else signed in with my account. I immediately changed my password and then everything was fine again. But I also have friends who's MSN/WL has been hacked before, where strange links were sent around with a small comment or just people trying to fool you. But this doesn't happen that often anymore.
I have a small amount of passwords that I always use for different things. I always give different accounts different passwords, depending on how important my account is there.
One thing I can advise: never click on these links that are sent to you through Facebook or so and also give different accounts different passwords. Also try changing it after a while!
No I have never experienced this and glad I have not. I think people hack others accounts just for the fun in of it or maybe practicing for hacking something bigger like a company. My advice for keeping people from hacking your account is to make up complicated passwords. If this does happen you should tell all of your friends that you were hacked and notify the authorities.
I dont think I ever had a problem with someone hacking my account. I maybe had been hacked but it wasn't very important. The account was a online game account so i wasn't all OMG I GOT HACKED but i was disappointed. I think people hack accounts either because they want revenge, want to prove that they can hack, or they are jealous of what they have. I would suggest to have a strong password using letters, numbers, and capitalized numbers or letters. If you got hacked I would suggest that you would notify the company and explain what happened.
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