Facebook hacked: the recovery checklist

Facebook gives you more recovery levers than Instagram. Use them in this order.

1. Look for the Facebook email titled Your email address was changed and use secure your account in it.
2. Go to facebook.com/hacked and choose what happened.
3. Log in with an old password if prompted: Facebook accepts recent passwords for recovery.
4. Pass the identity check: ID upload or a video selfie.
5. Remove unknown emails, phones and admins, then lock it down.

If they posted scams from your profile

Your friends are the next target. Use the warn-your-followers script.

If it was suspended afterwards

Hacked accounts often get suspended for what the intruder posted. UnbanPro's guide on Facebook hacked account recovery covers that combination.

Facebook-only recovery tricks

• Recognised device: try from a phone or browser where you were already logged in.
• Old password: Facebook accepts a recently used password at recovery.
• Friends: older accounts may offer trusted-contact recovery codes from friends.

Common mistakes

• Creating a new profile with the same name. It confuses identity checks.
• Uploading ID with a different name from the profile and no explanation

Questions people ask

What if Facebook says my email isn't linked?

The hacker changed it. Use facebook.com/hacked and the old email you used, then the identity check.

Can friends help me recover Facebook?

They can report your profile as compromised, and older accounts may offer trusted-contact codes.