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My Facebook, and Email were hacked!

Posted by plucas - November 19th, 2023


So friday i discovered that someone had hacked into my new-ish business facebook page, Paul Lucas Writing And Art, and accessed the ad account there. They set up a fradulent ad campaign to the tune of a $299/day limit over the past week and drained all the money I had in the attached paypal account. I since blocked facebook's access to my paypal and I contacted Meta customer service and they said they would look into it.


Unfortunately, I logged into the account this morning, saw that a new credit card was attached to it. I was immediately kicked out of my account and was locked out despite everything I tried. Worse yet, my email attached to it was apparently hacked too, because every communication I had with Meta was missing and unrecoverable. I spent most of the afternoon changing passwords everywhere. I can't get to their customer help without logging on, and trying both phone and email have turned up nothing so far.


I'd just accept the loss, but those facebook pages are still up and being used by the hackers, and I don't know what's going on with them. I've exhausted everything I cna think of to do at this point. If anyone has any suggesions, I'll listen


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Checking your business FB page.. so far i don't see anything publicly different or weird, so hopefully that's a positive.

Not really. The problem was that the ads account associated with that page is what was hacked. That was attached to my paypal, and they accumulated over $700 in fees before I stopped the payments on the other end.

But thanks for the thought!