The saga of a deleted VK photo or a small hack by the hands of a person far from this matter / Sandbox / Sudo Null IT News

In this article we will look at a method that will help you recover a deleted photo from Vkontakte. You won’t be able to simply take and quickly recover a photo; only if you clicked delete photo, the “Recover” button will appear in case you deleted the photo by mistake. If you left that page, then the chances of returning the photo will be reduced several times.

Let's look at options for how to recover deleted photos.

Photos that you deleted from your page do not disappear completely. They remain on VK servers, and no user has access to them. Recovering photos from VK servers is almost impossible. To open this photo you need to know the exact link, but no one will tell us it. And finding such a link is completely unrealistic.

How to force a person to delete photos or videos?

First, contact this person (via personal messages on the website or by phone) and warn him in a calm tone that you will seek to remove the photos and will do whatever is necessary, including going to the police and court. Tell him that he could be prosecuted and that he must remove the photos voluntarily now or he will be in trouble with the law. You can send him this message:

I demand that you remove the photos of me that you posted on the site. I consider it necessary to warn you that these photographs violate the inviolability of my privacy. If you do not remove them immediately, the police and court will be involved. In this case, criminal penalties will be applied to you under Article 137 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Violation of privacy.”

If this does not work, or if the photo was posted on the Internet by an unknown attacker (hacker) and you cannot contact him, read on and start taking action:

The saga of a deleted VK photo or a small hack by the hands of a person far from this matter

I admit, I am an ordinary user, far from any type of activity related to cracking or, more simply put, hacking. I’m sitting on VKontakte, it’s far from early, and suddenly a friend posts photos from a Women’s Day celebration (by the way, happy March 8th to all the fair sex!) Deciding to look at them, I noticed that there was no third photo, but in the end I got this is the little window. Naturally, I still wanted to take a look at what my friend was hiding, and I was faced with 3 ways to solve this problem. I'll tell you in more detail about each of them.

Small preview

The simplest option for the average user.
All that is required is to right-click on the picture and select the submenu “Save picture as...” As a result, we get a picture like this:

Let's note the obvious disadvantage of this method - the low resolution of the picture (mine is 320x240). What if there is some text on it? Not such a good deal anymore, is it?

Full photography (long method)

To do this, you need to click on the photo again so that a notification about deleting the file pops up.
Now we must examine the elements on this page. Different browsers have different key combinations for this, but in Chrome it’s RMB (right mouse button) and “View element code” (or Ctrl+Shift+J), and Firefox is RMB and “Inspect element” (or Ctrl+ Shift+I). You should get a picture like this: The question arises, where are the developers hiding this ill-fated picture? I admit that Pavel Durov decided to hide it very far into the depths of tables and blocks, so much so that I had to make a large number of clicks... Here is the exact address:

Now look at the line

Everything that is in quotation marks after the word src is the address of our full-fledged image:

Yes, ladies, we found the deleted photo and made sure of VKontakte’s policy on storing photos on the server (upload any data after that). Agree that the path to the picture is quite long, because the user can delete more than one photo.

Full photo (quick method)

Note that the required data is stored in a link with id = “pv_photo”.
Now we can safely launch the console in the browser (Chrome: Ctrl+Shift+J -> “Console” tab, Firefox: Ctrl+Shift+K) and enter the following JS script: document.getElementById(“pv_photo”).firstChild.src As a result, we get a ready-made link to the deleted photo, which we can use as incriminating evidence to delete, because everything we did was only for training purposes.

Contact support

Let's look at the example of VKontakte. The administration will not delete harmless photographs with your participation. More precisely, this can be done, but only at the official request of law enforcement agencies, by a court decision, if it is proven that you were photographed not in a public place (for example, at home) without your knowledge (secretly). If you were photographed simply on the street, in a shopping center, at a school, at an institute, there is nothing you can do, the law does not prohibit it.

If you yourself once posted photos on the Internet, on your page, and now you are indignant that they were copied and posted somewhere else, this should be expected. VKontakte rules allow users to copy information within this social network. Don’t post it publicly again or do it with the “friends only” restriction.

But if you have posted photos of an offensive or personal nature (for persons over 18 years of age), the VKontakte administration will help you and delete them. Create a support request regarding photo deletion using this link:

Immediately send links to the photos that need to be removed. Write politely and briefly.

If someone created a clone page with your name and your photos (or put your photo on their avatar as the main photo), such a page can be deleted. This is done a little differently:

Recovering a deleted photo from a VKontakte page

Therefore, we must immediately use other options. You shouldn’t put off photo restoration for long.

Check if this photo is on your computer, phone, tablet or other Internet resources you use. Check all folders, flash drives, disks.
If your page was open to search engines, the album with your photo was not closed, then the photo can be saved in Google. Google often makes copies of pages on the Internet and stores them for some time, this is called a cache. If little time has passed since the deletion, there is a chance to restore the photo. But it happens that you can only return a thumbnail of a deleted photo.

How to delete a clone page with my stolen photos?

Make a request to the support service (link below). You will need to provide the following:

Link to the impostor’s page (how to find out the link to the page is described here).
What exactly was stolen (main photo, information, name).
Photo of your document (passport, driver's license, student's license, student record book).
A photo that shows your face against the background of the application you are filling out (next to the screen so that both your face and the open application are visible).

This is necessary to make sure that the real owner of the photos is contacting the administration.

If you can’t send a request, then on each VK page there is a special “Complain” function, with which you can send a complaint to the support service. When sending a complaint, indicate the reason “Clone of my page.”

Other social networks

How to recover a photo via Google

We check whether the page remains in Google's cache. Copy the address of your VK page and paste it into the search. If the result shows something, do the following:

Click on the small green triangle next to the page address.
Select "Saved Copy".
Click on it.

Now the saved copy of your page will open. If there is a photo there that you want to restore, open it and save it to your computer or phone (usually you need to right-click on the photo and select “Save image as...”).

How to delete photos, videos of me through the police or court?

If the previous methods did not help, you can contact the police with a statement or go to court. However, everything is not as simple as we would like. According to Article 152.1 of the Civil Code (Civil Code) of the Russian Federation, the image of a citizen is protected. The person must have received your consent (oral or written) to publish the photo, but except for the following cases:

the photograph was used in state, public or other public interests (for example, if you are a famous politician, public figure, artist, athlete);
the photograph was taken in a place open to the public or at a public event;
you posed for a fee.

In addition, if you yourself published a photo on a site whose rules allow further distribution (for example, on a social network where there is a “Share” button), then no one is obliged to ask permission to use your image. I should have behaved more carefully.

If your case is not one of those listed, then you can get the photo removed through the court. And if the photo was offensive, humiliating or of a personal nature, then you can also demand compensation for moral damage. It is recommended that you first consult with a lawyer. He will also help you correctly draw up a claim for protection of honor and dignity. The process will be long and difficult. In particular, it will be difficult to prove moral damage caused. You will have to pay for the lawyer's work.

If you decide to contact the police, then collect all the evidence (information about the person who posted your photos, a link to his page, links to posted photos, copies of these pages on paper, information about what actions you have already taken) and go to police department in your area. Write a statement in which you tell everything in detail and demand that the person be held accountable. Your application must be accepted and a ticket issued. Then wait to be invited to give an explanation. You may also receive a refusal.

Deleted VK pages - How to delete and restore a page?

How to delete a VK page in 2021

1. Go to the “Settings” section on your VK page, or follow the link vk.com/settings;
2. At the bottom we see the inscription “You can delete your page.” Click on it or follow the link vk.com/deactivate;

3. In the window that appears, you must select the reason for deleting the VK page from the list and click “Delete page.”

At your discretion, you can leave a checkmark next to the “Tell friends” item to share the reasons for deleting from the social network.

Now your VK page has been deleted. You will be able to use the deleted page only after it has been restored.

How to delete a VK page from your phone

You can also delete a VKontakte page from your smartphone using the VK mobile application, available on Android and iOS. This method works if you have the old VK application installed.

Important: in the latest version of the VK mobile application, the developers have disabled the function of deleting your page , both on iPhone and Android.
(It remains possible to delete your page through a mobile browser or through the PC version)

– Go to the VK application and click on the “Profile” tab;

– Select the “Account” item and at the bottom select the “You can delete your page” option.

– Select the reason for deletion and confirm your decision.

Delete VKontakte page from mobile browser

If you have the latest version of the VK mobile application installed, then you need to:

1. Open any browser and go to “Settings” (via the link m.vk.com/settings) and open the “Account” tab;

2. Select “You can delete your page”, select the reason and confirm the deletion.

As you can understand, deleting a VK page is not difficult, but what about restoring a deleted VKontakte page?

How to recover a deleted VK page

Here we want to tell you in detail how to recover your deleted VK account. Perhaps you deleted it earlier or became a victim of hacking and decided to return your personal page.

In fact, restoring a VKontakte page is not difficult. You can do this either from your smartphone (via an application or mobile browser) or using a PC.

1. First, you need to log in to your profile;

2. You will see your deleted page and the inscription “If necessary, you can restore your page” and the date until when this can be done.

3. Select the restore option and the VK page will become instantly active!

Browser cache

All sites that you view on the Internet are saved in the browser cache. The less often you clean it, the slower your computer runs, but the more information is stored in it. If what you need has been removed from the Internet recently, you can use this simple option.

To do this, you need to go into it and find this page. I show it on the Google browser. 1. Click the 3 dots located in the upper right corner of the browser. 2. Go to the “history” tab, in it you can find what you need.

Next, let's move on to the 3rd method. This option is especially good for browsing remote sites.

Recovering a deleted photo from VKontakte - instructions