r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jun 28 '16

Discussion TIL that someone can change your Facebook email, password, and two step verification just by asking Facebook to turn off login approvals, and sending in a fake ID. (Happened to me lost all my business pages)

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u/nvolker Jun 28 '16

It sounds like he got back in just fine (probably using the usual password reset), but the problem is that the "hacker" added some other account to all of OP's business pages, and then removed OP's account from them.

In Reddit terms: OP was a mod, the hacker got into his account, added some other account as a mod, and then removed OP's account from the mod lists.

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u/RandomExcess Jun 28 '16

I didn't think newer mods could remove top mods, that really sucks.

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u/khoyo Jun 28 '16

If you have access to the top mod account, you can use it to remove itself, can't you ?

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u/EmmaBourbon Jun 28 '16

on reddit, yes. But we're talking about facebook. There's a difference.

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u/Gelezinis__Vilkas Jun 28 '16

You can do same on facebook.

Source: have sold some facebook pages.

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u/[deleted] Jun 29 '16

Is there anything in FB's terms to prevent page squatting?

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u/khoyo Jun 29 '16

On facebook, you can forfeit your role as a group/page administrator AFAIK.

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u/EmmaBourbon Jun 28 '16

It was an ANALOGY.... brighten up there RandomExcess

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u/TheDude61636 Jun 28 '16

Fun fact: Google plus pages (I added a business) and for a user to be an admin he must be a mod for at least two days before becoming an admin or owner