Facebook is, undoubtedly, the most popular social networking website with more than 1 billion active users. Due to its popularity, many hackers (or should I say crackers?) are actively involved in hacking Facebook accounts of unsuspecting users. This article outlines the many strategies that such hackers use to gain access to Facebook accounts of hundreds of users each day and how you can stop them from hacking your account.

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Facebook is one of the prime target of hackers!
Email Address Hack

I have always been puzzled by people's leniency in this matter. Most people leave their email addresses visible on their Facebook profiles. All a hacker then needs to do is know your name and he will be conveniently shown your email address at your profile. Also, most people share their email ids everywhere. How easily a hacker can then hack your Facebook account (and everything else associated with that email id) if he 'guesses' your password (if you use a weak password) or answers your security question! Here are some tricks you can use to protect yourself from this vulnerability.

How to safeguard your Email Address?
Just follow these steps:-

Hide your Email Address from everyone by going to Edit Profile>Contact and Basic Info>Clicking on the gear icon beside your email address> checking 'Only Me' if you have not done so already.
Change your primary email address to a one that is only known to you by going to Settings>Email> and changing your primary email to the new one (known only to you) and removing your previous email address.
For additional security, when in Account Settings, enable Login alerts to receive notifications and emails when a new computer or mobile device logs into your account.
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