How to Hack Someone's Facebook Profile

In the previous tutorial we saw how to hack a Facebook account through phishing. Now, in this tutorial we are going to discuss the methods that will help us hack into somebodies Facebook account. Although I hear people saying there is no way to hack into someone’s Facebook account now a time, well this belief is for those who have come across some trial and failed on the contrary for newbies there doesn’t exist any kind of software where one can just put in an email id, press enter and get the password of the account (this also include websites saying we can hack Facebook, for example facehack.me). Like any other hack, hacking Facebook needs time, effort, skill and mainly patience. Although the methods for hacking any other type of accounts like twitter or e-mails like Gmail, Hotmail and yahoo mail is the same.

Before we start this tutorial let’s discuss some points related to Facebook. Despite the security concerns that have plagued Facebook for years, many people are sticking around and new members keep on joining and signing up. This has made Facebook to break record with over one billion monthly active users as of October 2012.

Talking about Facebook, we share our lives on Facebook. We share our birthdays, our anniversaries, our vacation plans and locations etc. Let’s just conclude that many of us share too many things on Facebook. We use Facebook as a tool to connect, but there are those people who use that connectivity for malicious purposes. Let’s not forget that there are people who wants to exploit our information and steal our identities that we gave and posted publicly on our profile. Now am not saying that we need to steer away from Facebook but we should definitely be aware of our surrounding plus the less information we put on our profile the harder it will be for hackers to gain your information.

When coming to our point, I’m going to show you a couple of ways and methods that hackers use to hack a Facebook account.

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          1. Keyloggers

one of the best ways  in order to hack Facebook (this include any kind account) is to make a victim open up his account on a system with a keylogger attached or sending a remote keylogger to the victim. Now you may ask what is a keylogger? A keylogger is a type of software that usually runs in the background and secretly record and collect the data of the victim. keyloggers records almost every keystroke on the keyboard in a simple text file format, some record mouse clicks and pointer locations, some record folders and files opened and some others even take screenshots at regular interval. In addition to the listed features, most of the keyloggers provide an option whether to store the text file locally or send it to your email ID or FTP server. Keyloggers can be install and setup easily like any other program. Once setup, they usually go to hiding as background process leaving no trace on the surface and starting up of the OS.

In order to install a keylogger, first thing is first and that is downloading a keylogger that satisfies our choice and our need next step is following the smooth setup instructions as we would when we install any program. That is it! Just like this we will setup our keylogger and all the things that is done by the victim will be stored in text format and will be saved locally or will be send to our email. Some of the well-known keyloggers are: the best keylogger, ardmax keylogger, refoge keylogger and actual keylogger. This listed keyloggers seems to do their job perfectly so you could simply pick one and do your thing. (NOTE: there are some full versions of very good keyloggers available on websites like isohunt.com and kickass.to but we shouldn’t use them since they are illegal.

·         How to protect yourself?

You can protect yourself from this kind of attack by using a program like key scrambler. You can google it if you want to download it.

2.         2.  Reset the password

One of the easiest way to hack a Facebook account is through the recovery procedure. This type of procedure would be easier if you are a friend with the person that you are trying to hack.

·         The first step is to get the Facebook email login of the person we are trying to hack. If you don’t know it then you can find it on their Facebook page in contact info section (phone no will work too!!).

·         Next, click on Forgotten your password? And type in the email (phone no) of the victim we are trying to hack. Their account should appear now. Click This is my account.

·         Now it will ask if you would like to reset the password via our victim’s email. This doesn’t help so click on No longer have access to these?

·         After following the above procedure it will now ask you How we can reach you? Then insert an email ID that you have access to and also the email should not be linked to any of a Facebook account.

·         It will now ask you the recovery questions. If you are close friends with the victim it is great but if you are not don’t worry, Go to your Facebook account and find out about our victim in their profile. (NOTE: if you figure it out you can change the password and login to the account).

·         Finally if you don’t figure out the question, you can click on Recover your account with help from friends. This will allow you to choose between 3-5 friends and send them a code which will allow you to gain control of the account.

NOTE: after you successfully fill the information needed to be filled in the “Forgot your password?” you need to wait 24 hours

How to protect yourself?

           Don’t post your facebook email ID to your facebook profile. Also the less information we post in our profile, the difficult it will be for hackers to hack into your account.

3.       3. Stealing Cookies

What is cookies?

A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to cookie file of the browser on your computer’s hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. Each time you open a website that uses cookies, it checks to see if a cookie is already stored locally on your computer – if it is then it can use that to find out some information about you. So in simple definition cookie allow a website to store information on a user’s hard drive and later retrieve it. These cookies contain important information used to track a session that a hacker can sniff out and steal if they are on the same WIFI network. This can be done by using your android phone or computer. Here we will discuss how to steal cookies through our computer.

Firesheep is a Firefox plugin that is used in order to sniff web traffic on an open Wi-Fi connection. It collects the cookies (information) which are found on the network and store them in a tab on the side of the browser.

Now using the above method you can click on the saved cookies (information) and access the victims account. But you will also be logged out if the victim log out from his/her account, which makes it impossible for you to access the account.

4.        4.Social Engineering

Social engineering is a term that describes a non-technical kind of intrusion that relies heavily on the human interaction and often involves tricking other people to break normal security procedures. A social engineering has the same meaning as a con game. Like a con man doings a person using social engineering can make peoples reveal information that compromises there security.

For this method to work you need to know the person that you are going to hack. You need to know them very well so that it doesn’t seem suspicious when you carefully try to work up their recovery question into your conservation and get them to answer it causally. After getting the information your work is not done yet. You need to fill the options found in “Forgot your password” then wait 24 hours until the account become successfully recovered.