My Facebook Account Has Been Hacked

This is both annoying and embarassing.

My Facebook account was hacked earlier this afternoon and the “charming” hacker has been telling my contacts that I need money – it’s basically a 419 scam.

I’ve already reported the issue to Facebook

To clarify:

– I’m not in London or anywhere else overseas. I’m currently in Carlow
– I haven’t been mugged or had my wallet stolen
– I don’t use Western Union or any such services. If I wanted your money I’d either ask or encourage you to spend more money with us!

Hopefully I’ll be able to get this resolved in a timely fashion.

I suspect my Facebook account password was a bit too weak and was bruteforced..

UPDATE: I’ve finally regained control of the account and will be using much stronger passwords in the future (there’s a blog post or two in that tale!)