Today, the social network with the uncomplicated name "Odnoklassniki" is very popular among the Russian-speaking audience of the Internet. However, the more people are registered on the resource, the more money its owner receives for advertising, the more likely it is that the site will be attacked by scammers. They hack and block the pages of ordinary users in order to send spam and advertising. There are also special virus programs that infect accounts on social networks. Therefore, today many people are looking for an answer to the question: "If a page in Odnoklassniki was hacked, what should I do?"
Hack pages are not only professional hackers, but also just envious people who want to read your correspondence or just harm the account owner. If your password consists of the date of birth of your husband or child, you can be hacked by anyone you know! So, if a page in Odnoklassniki was hacked, what should I do?
Measuresprecautions
First, let's talk about what not to do:
1. Tell anyone your password from Odnoklassniki, leave it on other sites (a warning about this is usually displayed when you follow an external link outside the social network). Now there are even entire sites, almost complete copies of Odnoklassniki. If you get to such a resource and enter your data, or, even worse, send a code to the specified phone number, you will be regularly withdrawn money, and the real page will be lost forever. Look carefully at the address bar (where the site address is indicated), the well-known path should be printed in it: https://www.odnoklassniki.ru. If at least one letter is missing, this is a duplicate site!
2. Send SMS to an incomprehensible mobile phone number (in 99.9% of cases it will turn out to be paid, scammers will receive the money). Remember, the Odnoklassniki social network site asks you to enter a phone number only once - during registration! The code sent in an SMS message is required by the site only when buying gifts and services for OKs. If you are asked to enter your phone number to unblock the page so that your identity is established and spam is prevented, this is a scam!
3. Panic. It's not the end of the world if a page in Odnoklassniki has been hacked.
What to do?
1. Update the antivirus software on your computer,to rule out a viral cause and avoid re-hacking.
2. Check disks C and D for viruses. Remove them if found.
3. On the main page of the site "Odnoklassniki" - "Login to the site" (password, login are entered on this page), find the line "Forgot password". Click on this link.
4. In the field where it says "Login", enter your email.
5. In another field, enter the code combination that you see in the picture - this is how the site checks whether you are a live person or a virus program.
6. Think of a different password. It should be as complex and long as possible. If the page in Odnoklassniki was hacked, then the password was too easy.
If you were blocked by the administration for sending SPAM
If the above steps did not help or your page was closed by the site administration itself, contact technical support and describe in detail what happened. By the way, on Odnoklassniki itself in the "Help" section there are answers to many questions from users, including the question: "If a page in Odnoklassniki was hacked, what should I do?"
