Facebook Account Disabled?

[PaulMacC]

Posted this here because the one in Discuss Anything wasnt getting much help.
I logged in today and it said it was disabled due to the fact that it may have been compromised or something of that nature, sent them a reply to the automated email that said to reply to verify I was the owner of the email account that had been linked. Awaiting reply, my account right now is basically non-exsistant, when I sign in it says it has been temporarily disabled for security measures as said above it may have been compromised. I dont know how this happened, scanned my PC and everything else seems to be fine. Anyone else experienced this before and know what and how long the procedure is? Does Facebook do this randomly because I dont know how my account could have been compromised. I was on it at like 3AM yesterday and when I woke at 11AM it was disabled.

[peteyt]

Have you signed up to any sites recently, or clicked any suspicious looking links, apps etc - once i noticed my facebook had sent out links to loads of people although usually im security concious.

[PaulMacC]

Have you signed up to any sites recently, or clicked any suspicious looking links, apps etc - once i noticed my facebook had sent out links to loads of people although usually im security concious.
I check the URL bar everytime I sign in plus I'm always on auto-sign in.

[Trinity]

Ask your friends on msn or something if they noticed any suspicious posts or anything before your account was disabled.
Have you been using facebook on someone else's computer recently?

[redtom]

How oftern do you change your password? Facebook has been hacked a few times.

[PaulMacC]

Havent changed my password at all since I made my account, havent opened any links or msn or used any other PC to log on.

[Rapidshare]

How oftern do you change your password? Facebook has been hacked a few times.


Eh, no it hasn't.

I cant think of any other reason that someone tried accessing your accoount. What does it say about removing this 'block'

[PaulMacC]

Eh, no it hasn't.

I cant think of any other reason that someone tried accessing your accoount. What does it say about removing this 'block'
Your account has been temporarily disabled as a security precaution because Facebook has determined that it may be compromised. When an account is disabled, the profile and all information associated with it are immediately made inaccessible to other Facebook users. What this means is that you effectively disappear from the Facebook service. In addition, Facebook does not use information associated with disabled accounts.

I'm assuming some ass has tried to get into my account or falsely accused me of stealing my own account. I was asked to click somewhere, they sent me an automated email which I was told to reply to, to receive further instruction. I replied yesterday at about 5pm, no reply since.

[Rapidshare]

Yeah, that was awhile back, before I tried to log in and got this message:

"Suspicious activity has been detected on your Facebook account and it has been temporarily suspended as a security precaution. It is likely that your account was compromised as a result of entering your password on a website designed to look like Facebook. This type of attack is known as phishing."
My account also was disabled and I got the same reply. Facebook encourages you to add new friends all the time and when you add too many they disable your account without warning.
The most common reason for disabling an account is use of a fake name. Facebook requires real first and last names. You'll find more details on this Facebook page.



What happened was that I was playing a game named Metropolis and I mass added peoples email addresses from Metropolis forums in Facebook as this kind of behavior used to be safe and accepted earlier or so I think



Lalala, gotta be one of them.

Any reason is that someone got a keylogger or a RAT on your PC and tried accessing it but because of paypal are alert that the person accessing on the other side of the world will temp disable your account.


Just reply to what facebook are asking for you :)

[redtom]

Eh, no it hasn't.

Maybe not 'hacked' but I'm there have been many flaws with facebook, and if I remember correctly there was some big problems around this time last year where tones of accounts became compromised.

[PaulMacC]

Lalala, gotta be one of them.

Any reason is that someone got a keylogger or a RAT on your PC and tried accessing it but because of paypal are alert that the person accessing on the other side of the world will temp disable your account.


Just reply to what facebook are asking for you :)
I've scanned my PC multiple times with AVG and MalwareBytes. Nothing shows. I havent downloaded anything and all my other accounts are fine.

[Rapidshare]

Just email facebook, we cant do anything.

[PaulMacC]

Just email facebook, we cant do anything.
Yeah, they're being quite slow to reply ;P

[Kieran]

I had this exact thing happen two days ago.... I logged in and it said for me to check the activity. So I looked and someone from America logged in to my account, so I had to change my password. Was a bit weird :S

[PaulMacC]

I had this exact thing happen two days ago.... I logged in and it said for me to check the activity. So I looked and someone from America logged in to my account, so I had to change my password. Was a bit weird :S
Only problem is that it wont let me log in, I get a disabled screen for security reasons.

[W00TZEH]

SCAN USING MICROSOFT SECURITY ESSENTIALS

[peteyt]

This might sound a stupid question, but is your password a decent password - I'm not sure if this is the same for facebook, probably not, but some sites can try to use ways of getting onto accounts with scripts that try passwords in a dictionary - so simple passwords are easier to work out. P

Passwords shoud really be 6 letters minimum, and containt both letters and numbers - for extra security they can contain a mixture of lower and upper case - capital letters and non capital letters and other icons e.g. *^&$ and even spaces sometimes. I've also heard of people using stupid passwords e.g girfriends name making it easy to guess. But most people know that these days so I'm sorry, don't want to try and say your what they'd call a "noob" or anything lol.

Also you say it saves your password? Does anyone else have access to your computer. I always lock mine when away just incase anyone tries to get on - if someone saw your PC on they could have gotten access to your facebook or if someone did manage to lets say hack your PC - with the password saved they wouldn't need to know it to spam.

[Axel]

Yeah, they're being quite slow to reply ;P

Uh huh, and the exact same responses were given in the previous thread, and yet somehow you feel the need to post here.

Posting here won't make the experience go any faster.

[PaulMacC]

Uh huh, and the exact same responses were given in the previous thread, and yet somehow you feel the need to post here.

Posting here won't make the experience go any faster.
You know being modest and keeping your mouth shut in life will do good things.

[lolwut]

Ask them to disclose the reason why they disabled you?

[Florx]

Contact facebook then just sit tight, they will get back to you. Don't forget there are only 1,000 employees at Facebook for 300million members!

[Irrorate]

You probably weren't actually hacked...
I logged on my Facebook from another IP address whilst being logged in at my home PC and they disabled my Facebook account because they thought it had been compromised. Smart idea, a little too over-protective sometimes.

If you reply to their e-mail they'll reply with a link for you to follow to change your password... eventually.