Here is what facebook recommends. Facebook says my account has been compromised. Why can't I access my account?
If you are unable to log in to your account and are receiving a warning that your account appears to be compromised, Facebook has detected suspicious activity on your account and has temporarily suspended it as a security precaution. It is possible that your password was "phished," or stolen by a website designed to look like Facebook. You will be able to regain access to your account once you complete the automated security verification process. When you regain access to your account, please be sure to follow all of the suggested security precautions, including:
Password Protection: You should select a unique and complex password for your account and keep this entirely to yourself. Be sure that you use a complex string of numbers, letters, and punctuation marks that is at least six characters in length. It should also be different from other passwords you use elsewhere on the internet.
Private Browsing: Please make sure that you log out of your Facebook account and quit your browser when you're done using the site. This is especially important when using a public computer or someone else's mobile device. You should also never check the "Keep me logged in" box when logging in from a public computer, as this will keep you logged in even after you close your browser window.
Secure Email: Since anyone who can read your email can probably also access your Facebook account, you should make sure that any email addresses associated with your account are secure. To ensure security, you should change the password for all of your email accounts and make sure that no two are the same. By varying your passwords, you can greatly decrease your account's risk of being compromised in the future.
Security Question: If you have not done so already, you should add a security question to your account from the Account Settings page. You should choose a question and answer that you will remember, and no one else should be able to answer the question that you choose.
Log in at Facebook.com: Make sure that when you access the site, you always log in from a legitimate Facebook page with the facebook.com domain. Do not click any unfamiliar links and do not run any executable files (files ending in .exe) on your computer without knowing what they are. If something looks or feels suspicious, go directly to www.facebook.com to log in.
Run Anti-Virus Software: If your computer has been infected with a virus or with malware, you will need to run anti-virus software to remove these harmful programs and keep your information secure.
For Microsoft http://www.microsoft.com/protect/viruses/xp/av.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/protect/computer/viruses/default.mspx
For Apple http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222
Learn More: You should visit the following page for more information about Facebook security and how to report suspicious material in the future: http://www.facebook.com/security
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Send a message to Facebook help. Ask them to unlock by verifying id. Take a picture front and back of your id along with a picture of a bill with name and similar address. This should work I had same problem a couple of years ago. Let me know if this works. Have a great day!
It's possible you've been hacked and someone has gotten on and changed your password. Or that FB is just having a bad server day where things that have worked for ages get zapped.
What I'd recommend to be on the safe side: Go to the FB login page and then use the 'I forgot my password' link. This should prompt you, possibly for some secret-question answers, and then send a password-reset link to the e-mail account that you have linked to the FB account. Use the link and go reset your password. Of particular importance in the event that someone did hack you:
Make the new password distinctly different from the old one. If the old one was 'Evelyn555', don't make the next one 'Evelyn556' or 'Evelyn666'. You want a hacker to have no easy clue to the new password.
Change the password on the e-mail account you affiliate with your FB account. Same advice on a distinctly different PW. If someone hacked your e-mail, then they also could have sent FB a password-reset request from there. (You may even want to check the trash to see if the link was sent, used, trashed, but not deleted). In any case, make sure that the spot that's the 'forgotten password' back-up spot isn't compromised, or it'll happen again.
Make sure you memorize or save the new passwords in some appropriate way so that you can remember them, but no-one else can find them.
If you have laptops or mobile devices that 'Stay Logged In' to FB, be careful about lending them to others without explicitly opening a tab to FB first and logging out.
You need to verify your E-mail address in order to use Facebook and FB chat properly. An activation mail is sent to your E-mail account when you sign up for Facebook. That mail contains a link / key to activate your Facebook account. Check your inbox / spam folder, you'll find your Verification mail there.
Just use the one account for now, unless you can remember the account user and information login, i doubt you will get fb to send you the account information, it should be that in about a month or two with no account activation the account will lapse and be deleted by the ops at fb. Hope this helps
.........when you sign into fb.........just above the area where you sign in your password........you will see........ "forgot your password" ....click that and follow the directions..........you will have to remember the email address you used in order to open the fb account..........good luck
try to login as usual and when it fails just click below the
password prompt for "forgot your password" and it will send to your
email address a confirmation link to click and change the password.
Your probably entering the wrong password. Find the e-mail that was sent to you when you first registered .....click on the link in the e-mail that verifies your e-mail address. This should bring you to your page ......once you are on your Home Page ...click on your picture or the sillouitte where your picture would appear. This will take you to your wall. Click on the info tab and then the contact info....there will be a place to change your password.Click on it and change your password. FB will send you an E=mail to verify the change. Go to your e-mail and find the link in it to verify the PW change. WRITE YOUR PASSWORD DOWN SO YOU DON'T FORGET IT AGAIN....FIXED
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