'Friend' hacking into facebook, anyway to trace them?

[facebookfreaky]

Have namechanged!

A friend of mine is very, very upset.

She shared a piece of news with a few close friends.

Someone then hacked into her facebook account and revealed the news to everyone as if it was(original) friend herself posting.

Very odd as it has to be one of her closest friends that did it and guess her password.

Is there any way at all to find out any clues from the computer as to who it was?

Long shot I know but worth asking.

Are you sure it is not your friend's way of announcing this news herself?

No, she deleted it as soon as she saw it and has been very upset about it.

I didn't even know what had gone on as the original message had gone, I phoned to to find out what happened.

Is she very very sure that it was hacked? How was the information posted up onto Facebook in the first place (e.g. was it a message appearing in the inbox or a wall post?)

Facebook security is very tricky to get right and it's quite possible that it was just visible to any of her friends.

If she's very sure that the account was hacked then she could try reporting it to Facebook, they should have logs that will let them work out what might have gone on.

It must have been hacked, you know when you post something and it say

Jane Smith : wants to sleep

well hers said

jane smith is getting married in feb.

as if she had updated her status, but she hadn't.

Ah gotcha....

There's no real way for you, or your friend, to find out who did it.

You could complain to Facebook and they might take some action but they almost certainly won't tell you who it was that did .

Ah shame

If she regularly stays logged into Facebook, then the easiest way would be to use her computer and just write it. Could that have happened?

If not, she should change her password on Facebook and any other sites where she uses the same one. It's not so much that the friend would hack into anything else, it's that she has an easy password and that's not good!