What to do if you have hacked a page in a social network?

Every day in the world, social networks are developingmore and more, communication in the virtual world is becoming more popular. One of the most famous social. networks in the CIS countries is "VKontakte".

You, like all your peers or acquaintances,a very frequent user of social networks (statistics say that every second person on the planet has at least one page in a similar resource). Accordingly, you like to spread your photos, correspond with interesting people for you, etc. But what if your confidential information is in danger? Or rather, what if your page on the social network was blocked due to hacking?

First, we'll figure out how you could becomevictim of scammers who have obtained data to enter your profile on the social network. So, there are several ways of hacking. The most popular are the rude method, phishing attack, and also fake. In addition to these methods, there are still a thousand less popular in the world, but we can not stop at all.

Rough hacking pages - this is a trivial selection toyour login. This method requires special skills and skills, and therefore is not used as often as others. It consists in that the attackers calculate your email address, which you go to the social network, and try to pick up a code word for it. Manually this is very problematic, so there are many programs that deal with the automatic selection of your password symbols. The only way to protect against such hacking is a large and complex password. Try to use the numbers of different registry, letters that do not form any logical sequence, as well as symbols, if those systems skip.

Phishing - this way is more clever, becausewhat is the receipt of data from your page from yourself. How is this possible for intruders? Here is the most popular scheme. You receive a letter by e-mail with the request to go to the link in the social network. By clicking on the address bar, you go to a phishing site, whose address is the most similar to the address of a real social network, so it's hard to notice the substitution immediately. Once on the login page, which is the clone of the one you use to activate your account, you enter your email address and password that is written to the registry by attackers. You, without suspecting anything, continue your work until the administration blocks your page because of hacking.

Fake is probably the most common way. You receive an email with an email saying that your friend has left a message on your wall. After that, clicking on the link, you get to an unknown site. Consider that your page has already been hacked.

It does not matter which social network you prefer,The recommendation protecting from such incident, only one: do not pass on strange links in letters of e-mail that at you have not cracked a page in a social network. By the way, in order to avoid such incidents once again, you can turn off the notification function (permanent notifications that come to "soap", which contain information about your actions on the site). So you will not just "puzzle" over what the mysterious letter came to you.

Free social. networks are very popular, but also very dangerous at the same time, since you can lose important data for you because of hacking by intruders. After all, often many photographs and documents are contained only in the history of correspondence with a friend. And, perhaps, the messages themselves are of great value to you. So, what to do if you have hacked a page?

First of all, you do not need to despair. If you notice any hacking traces, but your account is not blocked, change the password immediately. If you already hacked the page and it was blocked by the administration, you can restore access to it using the mobile phone number to which it was tied. But if for some reason this procedure can not be carried out, you will have to fill out a special questionnaire, in which you will specify the reason for the denial of access when entering your profile on the social network. If you specify in the reason "Hacked page", to restore the entrance you will need to provide your passport details and a photo on which you will be represented and the form to be filled. After that, the administration will check your application and restore access.