Hack shows why it pays to protect your Facebook account from attack


Facebook's logo is seen through a magnifier in front of a displayed PC motherboard, in this illustration taken April 11, 2016. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

Sometimes a password alone is not enough to prevent hackers from breaking into your Facebook account. A 44-year-old learned that the hard way recently when someone hijacked his page to publish inflammatory abuse. 

It appeared the Turkish-speaker was publicly vilifying the victims of a terrorist attack in Turkey. The result was thousands of protesting messages to him from other users, many enraged and threatening. 

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