Have I been hacked and what to do?

kah22

I’d appreciate some advice

A Facebook friend, someone I know personally sent me a link viaMessenger asking was this me in a video. The message was sent this afternoon.

I clicked the link and FB asked me to sign in. I shouldn’t have but I did, I was then presented with a request to download a VPN which I didn’t do and immediately closed FB.

Sometime later the fellow discovered he had been hacked and posted a ‘don’t open message’ on FB

So what should I do now? I’m operating via iPad and iPhone.  I opened the message in the iPad.  I might also add that over the past number of days my iPad has closed down by itself.  The little cog wheel keeps spinning and then the iPad closes down, there is no difficulty in restarting.

Again thanks to all you guys out there who understand these things, I don’t.

Kevin.   ps I’m now getting a message your account is temporally locked

Neil_Jones

Change your Facebook password and set up the two factor authentication.  When you an get back into it.

Nver click on links you were not expecting.

kah22

Hi hi Neil, thanks for the quick reply.  I’m not sure where to go next.  If I try to log in via the web I get this massage.  I’m not using a Samsung, all my gear is Applego to my email account I get an email from Facebook

It looks like someone tried to log in to your account on 19 February at 18:02 using an unknown device. Your account is safe; we just wanted to make sure that it was you who tried to log in from somewhere new.

If you don't think that this was you, please log in to Facebook so that we can walk you through a few steps to keep your account safe. im trying to be cautious, should I follow this email Kevin

debitcardmayhem

No goto Facebook using facebook.com only and then look at notifactions. DO NOT follow links in emails EVER

Edit , OK Kevin you might like to check your messages

Chino

debitcardmayhem said:

you might to delete your link since it included you email address on yahoo.

The irony is, most readers would never have thought to click on the link until they read your "helpful" post.

debitcardmayhem

Chino said:

debitcardmayhem said:

you might to delete your link since it included you email address on yahoo.

The irony is, most readers would never have thought to click on the link until they read your "helpful" post.

No really , does the internet connect to this site then? You seem you have a lot to say without being much help

kah22

Thanks for the advice, I’m up and running again

debitcardmayhem

Still check your messages on here

cymruchris

If you use the same password on multiple other sites - get them all changed asap.