Recovering lost/possibly hacked facebook password

neo_bahamut1985 · Post by **neo_bahamut1985** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:07 am

Okay, I was trying to change my password on www.facebook.com and I fear that someone changed my password and made my email address "invalid" on their server. I already contacted facebook about it and they haven't done jack squat. I then click on "reset password", go to my email account and it prompts me to click on the link, that's when it says "email account invalid". This never happened before. Isn't there
anymethod that will let me hack into there and recover my password/email account?

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:24 am

It's a waste of time doing this since you're invoking the same evil cycle that caused the problem in the first place.

Next time, don't use "password" or something just as lame as a password.

neo_bahamut1985 · Post by **neo_bahamut1985** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:27 am

yes but my had one caps letter two numbers and a punctuation mark and crap like that. I'm not 100% if it even was hacked, but merely an assumption. Only if facebook support would get off their butts and fix this...How someone could guess that kind of password combination is astounding.

franpa · Post by **franpa** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:30 am

they can't recover your password, if they could then why would you register there? sites encrypt your password in a database and the admin have no way to decrypt the data. the best thing they can do for you is to recreate your account from scratch or make a new one and merge everything from your old one to the new one.

Deathlike2 · Post by **Deathlike2** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:33 am

Usually password recovery is using a simple link on their website (usually near the login stuff) that gives you instructions on what to do.

On the flip side, if Facebook doesn't require you to retype the password/e-mail combo for confirmation of an e-mail/password change, then you most likely shot yourself in the foot instead.

neo_bahamut1985 · Post by **neo_bahamut1985** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 5:44 am

that's the weird part, I had a password reset prompt sent to my email account and I click on "reset password" and states my email as not being "valid".

Rashidi · Post by **Rashidi** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 6:45 am

How someone could guess that kind of password combination?

ever use public internet? in my country, most of them were infested with keyloggers

neo_bahamut1985 · Post by **neo_bahamut1985** » Fri Apr 11, 2008 2:43 pm

Crap.

Edit 4/11/08: Attempted to set up another account and is says "it already exists". Very ironic; facebook says my email isn't registered yet it at the same time it says it is "already in use". How does that work? It's not my password per se, but my email address...maybe?