My Facebook account was just hacked.I thought so after receiving two separate email messages from Facebook Security that my account would be deleted because of violating the terms of Facebook and that someone from Makati City just logged in my account when I was in Manila that time and was still logged in at Facebook in my iPod Touch.
The first Facebook Security email did not elaborate the violation I committed. Nevertheless, I skimmed through the Facebook terms and conditions and found nothing I could possibly violate.
The second email instructed me to click a link if I was not the person who logged in at Makati City. So I did click the link which brought me to a window where I was asked to change my password, including that of the email account I use to log in at Facebook.
Upon doing so, however, my account could no longer be accessed using the new password. The Facebook log in page says the email I use was already removed from my account. And I thought only my password would be changed. But I remember from a window that opened before I changed my password that my account would be temporarily suspended because of possible "hacking" activity.
What's more puzzling is the emails I received from Facebook suddenly were gone in my inbox and were nowhere to be found even in the trash bin. I don't remember deleting them as I also received a third with a code to be used if I log in with my new password.
So my Facebook account is now up somewhere in the air beyond my access. I was told my page had a big "X" superimposed on it at first. Now the X is gone and a different, unknown email -- jiosafs@yahoo.com -- is displayed as the one I use (check my Facebook Badge on the right side of this blog to see it). I am a bit worried that my account would be used for some "evil" purpose or that it is being "played with."
Incidentally, this happened after I made a comment about the movie Social Network as a story about the "greed" in Facebook. But I did add: "... if what the movie portrays is accurate" to be fair. That was my last comment before the alleged "hacking" took place.
Could Mark Zuckerberg or anyone at Facebook be behind this then? Or is it me just getting carried away by the movie and being paranoid?
I read in the Wikipedia entry about Zuckerberg that he clearly thinks of himself as a hacker and he said that "it's OK to break things... to make them better." Now I am doubly paranoid.
Before I even delve deeper into an imaginary Conspiracy Theory, let me just say to whoever "played" with my account that you can gain nothing by doing this except to reaffirm my belief that the internet is really not a safe place to "put" ourselves into. It simply cannot be trusted because it is a human creation and therefore can be broken and torn apart if one who has the capacity and resources really intends to.
Though I can live my life without Facebook, a part of me still wants to have my account back.
But if I can't have it back, then Zuckerberg... I've just become one of your enemies.
