We cannot deny the importance of social media websites in our daily life. A social media helps people to connect with their friends, family, brands and celebrities etc. We share a lot of information on these websites including our personal and financial details such as location, photos and messages etc. This is the reason why hackers prefer to hack social media accounts for their bad intentions.

Not every internet user is educated enough in a way to understand how to protect their social media accounts. So in this article, I’m going to mention Phishing methods used by hackers to hack social media accounts and how to make sure that you won’t get hacked using those methods.

Phishing is very easy and one of the most effective techniques to hack social media accounts. There is 50-50 chance for a hacker to get victims password using Phishing if your victim is not aware of basic internet terminologies. There are various ways of carrying out a phishing attack. The most common one is where a hacker creates a replica of a login page which looks like the real social media page. The victim will then think it’s the usual login
The most common Phishing is to create a duplicate of a login page which looks like the real login page. The victim thinks it’s the usual social login page so he enters his login details in phishing page. Once the victim is logged in through the fake page, the email address and password are stored in a text file or in hacker’s database.
How to detect Phishing Page?
⦁ Check URL of the login page.
⦁ Never login your social media account on other devices.
⦁ Use Modern web browsers that identify the phishing page.
⦁ Avoid emails or text messages that ask you to log into your social media account.
Take a couple of minute and go through some images below.

Amazon Phishing Website

PayPal phishing

Login Phishing