Facebook: Hacked versus Cloned
“I think my Facebook account has been hacked. Sorry everyone.”
Anyone who uses Facebook, and has a decent number of Facebook friends, will see this message from time to time.
People get confused about exactly what’s happened, and therefore how to prevent this from happening and how to fix this if it does.
The key thing to understand is that there are two distinct things that can happen to you: Hacked, and cloned.
Facebook Hacked
This is when someone else is able to log in to your Facebook account.