# Facebook hacked??

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-hacked/644274>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 17, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-hacked/644274 "2012-12-17T04:39:07Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![keturah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e95f7d/32.png) [@keturah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/keturah)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-hacked/644274/1 "2012-12-17T04:39:07Z")

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Is anyone else getting strange private messages from friends? They are cordial but nothing like I would expect from these people.

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**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-hacked/644274/2 "2012-12-17T12:23:59Z")

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Probably just your friends. If there isn’t a massive amount of speculation on a tech site or something soon after something like that happens, I doubt it’s system-wide.

Or maybe it’s your account that’s hacked and your friends are WTF-ing at you… 😉

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**Author:** ![wedgehed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8edcca/32.png) [@wedgehed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wedgehed)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2012, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-hacked/644274/3 "2012-12-17T12:48:00Z")

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Check your friend list for duplicates. A former classmate of mine had her FB page cloned & the creep started sending out friend requests to everyone on her list. As soon as I accepted the new friend request, I started getting weird chat messages. I figure it was Nigerian scammers.