How to protect a VK page from hackers

VK developers are constantly working to improve the security of user accounts and personal data. Despite this, thousands of users are subject to account hacking every day. Therefore, questions about how to protect a VKontakte page from hackers always remain relevant.

Today I will tell you about why it is necessary to take security measures, what threat may await inattentive users, and how to maximally protect your profile and personal data from hacking.

Protecting your VKontakte account

There are no 100% ways to secure your page. Even the most sophisticated protection can be bypassed by an equally sophisticated hacker. But if you are not the main auctioneer of Gazprom, then such hackers will not be interested in you.

So why then is it necessary to protect yourself from hacking? There are many other hackers on VKontakte who do not necessarily hack into the pages of rich or famous people. They may need your account, for example, to carry out various actions prohibited by the rules of the social network (for example, spam). A rather banal, but often encountered situation.

Sometimes accounts are hacked by skilled professionals, sometimes access to them is lost due to the carelessness and inattention of the owner. Anything can happen. If you do not want anyone else to have access to your page, then you must take protective measures.

Why exactly does VKontakte block profiles?

VKontakte is a social network, and it is assumed that real people use it. Roughly speaking, there should be only 1 account for every living person. Actually, this is all the restrictions - only 1 account.

If you do not comply with these rules, you already become a participant in violating the rules of the VKontakte network and your profile will be banned very quickly.

It makes absolutely no difference whether you are a famous person or a simple ordinary citizen of the country.

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For duplicate profiles. For example, it turns out that you have more than 2 profiles on a social network. This is a violation
For the advertising page. For example, you created a page solely to advertise a business or sell products. In general, this is not prohibited if you do it carefully and your topic is legal.
For violation of the rules (spam, sending messages, posting prohibited content or photos, swearing and taking). In general, most often people from the entire list are blocked solely for SPAM.

You should also pay attention to the fact that blocking can be temporary or permanent.
For example, if you accidentally downloaded prohibited content, you will receive a warning. It can also be punished for minor spam, for example, you started sending messages with advertising to everyone, but before that you didn’t violate anything for 1-2 years.

Possible threats to your VK account

So that you can finally understand why you need to protect your VKontakte account, I will tell you about what can happen if it is hacked:

Loss of important data. For some, this may be important business correspondence or documents, for others it will be a playlist with music that has been collected over the years, for others it will be photographs, etc.
Publication of data. Anything on your profile that you do not wish to be made public may be made public. Of course, not all hackers will disclose this information, but you also cannot know for sure for what purpose the page was hacked.
Lost access. This does not always happen, but if the hacker is able to change the number, change the password and email, then you will forever lose access to your account.
Account blocking. As I already said, profiles are often hacked in order to perform various actions prohibited by the rules of the VK site. This ultimately leads to the page being banned. If the violations were not serious, then you can restore it and explain everything to the administration. But why take such a risk?

The administration of the VK site is not stupid and understands perfectly well that the page can be hacked, and it is not you who are performing suspicious actions. In most cases, they freeze the page and ask its owner to change his number and password.

How to protect your VKontakte page from hacking with a strong password

To protect your VKontakte page from hacking, you first need to think about the security and complexity of your password. A unique and long password is simply necessary for any account, and when compiling it you must adhere to the following rules:

Never use phone numbers, dates of birth and memorable events, names or nicknames, and simple passwords such as qwerty as a password.
The password must contain lowercase and uppercase letters of the English alphabet from Aa to Zz.

The password must contain numbers.
It is worth adding special characters “!№#*&%$”.
For maximum protection, you can use Russian letters or other languages, but not all sites and services support them.
The minimum length of passwords must be 9 characters! The bigger, the better.
The password should only be used for this account and nowhere else.
A strong password should be remembered, not stored anywhere, and not shared with anyone.

Creating a complex password is not that difficult. It is enough to use a random set of symbols, numbers and letters. There are even special online password generators that can easily generate a password like “x%}jUnOM1Bz72%40“. You can also use a Russian word on an English layout, replacing letters with numbers and with lowercase and block letters.

We store passwords correctly

The main problem with such a password is that it is not only difficult to guess and crack, but also difficult to remember. The password for each site must be unique and used only for that resource. Keeping a whole bunch of unique combinations of symbols and letters in your head for your favorite sites is quite problematic. And if you store passwords somewhere other than your own memory, you risk losing the password or giving it to an attacker. And even special programs for storing passwords can be hacked.

In one large company, cases of spying and hacking of employee computers sometimes occurred. Management instructed security to strengthen workplace security and forced every employee to use strong and secure passwords. After these measures, cases of hacking and information leakage increased significantly. Employees couldn't remember long combinations of letters and numbers - so they wrote them down! Passwords were written on sticky notes on monitors, copied into text files, sent by email, and became easy prey for attackers.

We create secure passwords

The best way to store passwords is to remember them. But you don’t have to remember a unique combination for each site; you just need to create and learn a special template for generating a password. For example, you can decide for yourself that four memorable words, the name of the site and a date known to you will be used to generate a password. For example, the VKontakte website is associated with a blue dog. We come up with a memorable phrase: “the blue dog dances at the wedding.” On the English layout, this phrase without spaces will look like this: cbyzzcj,fxrfnfywetnyfcdflm,t. We remember the wedding date – yours or your parents’. For example, 05/23/89. We decide for ourselves that the first group of numbers changes letters to special characters, the second group changes small letters to large ones, and the third also changes letters to symbols, but from the end.

We change the second and third letters in the combination to special characters, for example, “ and No. (with the combination of Shift 2 and 3), and make the fifth letter capital. We change the eighth and ninth from the end to numbers. As a result, we get a password of the form c»№zZcj,fxrfnfywetn98cdflm,t. To recover your password, just remember the phrase: “the blue dog is dancing at the wedding,” know the wedding date and the standard mask template. It is currently impossible to crack such a password by brute force.

For classmates, you can use the graduation date and the phrase “red-haired classmate at graduation.” We take the phrase without spaces hs;bqjlyjrkfccybryfdsgecryjv, take the graduation date, for example 05.29.92. We carry out the manipulations and get h";bQjly(rkfccybryf9sgecry2v.

There can be many options for such templates. It is based on an unpopular or frankly illogical phrase on the English layout without spaces, a date known to you and a method of replacing letters with special characters, numbers or capital letters. It’s easy to remember the phrase and remember the date; you can quickly recover the password with the proper skill. The method is not suitable for everyone, but if used correctly, it makes it possible to create unique passwords and store them in your head. And so that no one can access already open social networks, you can put a password on the browser.

Bottom line

By following all the above precautions, you will no longer have to worry about the security of your VK profile. And, of course, always be attentive and careful.

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Restoring a page after hacking

If attackers still managed to get hold of a VK profile, they should immediately return control over it. On the main page of the site, click on the link “Forgot your password?” and follow the system instructions:

Provide a phone number or e-mail.

Enter the code received through the specified communication channels in the appropriate line on the website.

Create a new password.

When the procedure is completed, you can log into your account.

Reference. If hackers managed to link the page to another email or phone number, then the task becomes much more difficult. To return your profile, you will need to contact VK support and solve the problem individually. You may be required to provide a copy of your passport to verify identity and account ownership.

As a conclusion, we note that in most cases, hacking occurs due to user carelessness. By following the recommendations presented in the article, you will be able to protect your page from theft, minimizing the risk. First of all, you need to remove your phone number and e-mail from your personal information, then set a strong password and make sure you have an anti-virus program on your computer.

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Verify the page and get a check mark

Verification is confirmation that there is a real person/organization behind your profile or community. You've probably seen accounts of famous people marked with a blue checkmark. This is how the site protects popular users from clone pages and attackers who can spread fake information on their behalf. In addition, verified accounts appear first in search results.

Public people and organizations can get the checkmark. Fame, in theory, can be not only widespread, but also local: if you are a journalist with a regular audience of several thousand people, try confirming the page.

You can request Facebook page verification here. On Instagram: “Settings” - “Account” - “Request confirmation”. In “VKontakte”: “Settings” - “General” - “Verification”.