{"id":30483,"date":"2013-06-23T20:47:39","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T00:47:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=30483"},"modified":"2013-06-25T00:34:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T04:34:28","slug":"report-your-facebook-account-when-it-gets-hacked-dont-just-change-your-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/report-your-facebook-account-when-it-gets-hacked-dont-just-change-your-password\/","title":{"rendered":"Report your Facebook account when it gets hacked, don&#8217;t just change your password"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two days ago I got a friend request from a real life friend that I have been Facebook friends with for years. \u00a0I thought it odd but accepted it. Today I got a message from her that was also odd. \u00a0She said &#8220;&#8230;<span style=\"font-size: 16px;\"><em>\u00a0life&#8217;s been treating me great cos of the help I got from the Re-elected Government in which a church member told me I wonder if you heard the good news about officer Sean yet?<\/em>&#8221; \u00a0<span style=\"color: #e00000;\">WTF? Instant red flag.<\/span> \u00a0I said, &#8220;I<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">want to make sure this is you, tell me where we met, ok? \u00a0Or name 3 mutual friends we have been in same room with. I&#8217;m making sure you&#8217;re ___ and not the hacker.&#8221; As soon as &#8220;she&#8221; saw that, I got the message &#8220;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">You cannot reply to this conversation. Either the recipient&#8217;s account was disabled or its privacy settings don&#8217;t allow replies.&#8221; Then I called my friend and she changed her password. Don&#8217;t just change your password, if you&#8217;ve been hacked. \u00a0Report it. 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Today I got a message from her that was also odd. \u00a0She said &#8220;&#8230;\u00a0life&#8217;s been treating me great cos of the help I got from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30483"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30549,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30483\/revisions\/30549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}