Facebook, spurious messages!

[Kentish]

What is wrong with facebook FFS!

It sent out a message to all my friends and family saying I am no longer married to my wife.

Obviously some were rather concerned, I also had a number of messages from old female friends from school days and it would appear to be quite a good ploy for anyone looking for a sympathy shaag

[Arese]

You've either been hacked or you don't know what you're doing.

HTH

[james_tigerwoods]

Kentish said:

It sent out a message to all my friends and family saying I am no longer married to my wife.

Hmmm IT sent it out did it? Honest. Guv'nor.

One suspects that the OP might be hedging some bets

Edited by james_tigerwoods on Tuesday 20th October 09:14

[Kentish]

Arese said:

You've either been hacked or you don't know what you're doing.

HTH

I hadn't even been on facebook when it updated my status and posted a message

You're right about me not being familiar with it but is it likely to be down to my ignorance if I had not used it in months?

[Kentish]

james_tigerwoods said:

Kentish said:

It sent out a message to all my friends and family saying I am no longer married to my wife.

Hmmm IT sent it out did it? Honest. Guv'nor.

One suspects that the OP might be hedging some bets

Edited by james_tigerwoods on Tuesday 20th October 09:14

One could think that, yes

But I assure you - I had nowt to do with it .....honest Guv!

[james_tigerwoods]

Log in. Change your password.

Do it now.

[V8mate]

I think the OP's wife sent it out. Take the hint, mate.

[Arese]

Kentish said:

Arese said:

You've either been hacked or you don't know what you're doing.

HTH

I hadn't even been on facebook when it updated my status and posted a message

You're right about me not being familiar with it but is it likely to be down to my ignorance if I had not used it in months?

Change your password from "ilovetts" to something less obvious

[Kentish]

Arese said:

Kentish said:

Arese said:

You've either been hacked or you don't know what you're doing.

HTH

I hadn't even been on facebook when it updated my status and posted a message

You're right about me not being familiar with it but is it likely to be down to my ignorance if I had not used it in months?

Change your password from "ilovetts" to something less obvious

Damn you're good!

[Kentish]

james_tigerwoods said:

Log in. Change your password.

Do it now.

Blocked from work

[james_tigerwoods]

Kentish said:

james_tigerwoods said:

Log in. Change your password.

Do it now.

Blocked from work

Ahh - Um. Can you do it from your phone?

[SimonV8ster]

You're doomed. Your life will become a mess forever more.........

[Kentish]

james_tigerwoods said:

Kentish said:

james_tigerwoods said:

Log in. Change your password.

Do it now.

Blocked from work

Ahh - Um. Can you do it from your phone?

Just tried from my iPhone & I can't in the iPhone facebook app.

I left my account logged out so i can see if anyone else logs into it.

My password is a very secure one so I doubt it is that to be honest but it's worth changing as soon as I can.

I'll probably deactivate my account as well.

[mike325112]

Might be worth a call to SWMBO as well....

[ezi]

Kentish said:

james_tigerwoods said:

Kentish said:

james_tigerwoods said:

Log in. Change your password.

Do it now.

Blocked from work

Ahh - Um. Can you do it from your phone?

Just tried from my iPhone & I can't in the iPhone facebook app.

I left my account logged out so i can see if anyone else logs into it.

My password is a very secure one so I doubt it is that to be honest but it's worth changing as soon as I can.

I'll probably deactivate my account as well.

When taking accounts you don't guess the password, you guess the persons email secret answer question and then you can reset passwords for anything else they have associated with that account.

Check the email account you used to register to FB.

[Arese]

mike325112 said:

Might be worth a call to SWMBO as well....

This. At least break it to her face to face, rather than via Facebook.

[DrTre]

Kentish said:

james_tigerwoods said:

Log in. Change your password.

Do it now.

Blocked from work

S'OK, I've done it for you.

[joewilliams]

Probably something like your wife messing about in her profile options, choosing greater privacy thus hiding her relationship status, causing FB to automatically update the world with the change.

[Mr Will]

joewilliams said:

Probably something like your wife messing about in her profile options, choosing greater privacy thus hiding her relationship status, causing FB to automatically update the world with the change.

Listen to this man, he speaks the truth

[ezi]

coyft said:

ezi said:

When taking accounts you don't guess the password, you guess the persons email secret answer question and then you can reset passwords for anything else they have associated with that account.

Check the email account you used to register to FB.

That would be a very unsecure site, if it sent a reset password to any email address other than the one you originally used to set the account up. You would therefore need to hack the OP's email account to reset the Facebook password.

Unfortunately this is the way most sites since a lot of visitors to sites such as FB don't have more than one real email account, or a proper understanding of web security.

If you know somebody you can get their Hotmail (For example) accounts in just a couple of minutes, people don't think their SQ's through and put silly things like:

Favourite food?
Pizza

A long time ago I got keylogged and lost my Hotmail, Steam, and WoW account because they were all tied with the Hotmail.

Edited by ezi on Tuesday 20th October 10:15