Just got a valuable lesson today

So my fb account just (nearly) got hacked. At first i got email notify me that my password has changed, and i suddenly has panic attack, and quickly go to my pc and attempt to save my account. Fortunately i got 2FA enabled, so the damn hacker did not have access to my account. But currently my account is in a locked state, because i requested 2FA code repeatedly. Now it won't send me codes anymore lol.

I read somewhere that there is a way to read other people sms through SMS hijacking, do you think that's possible for someone to do that? If so oh man i can say goodbye to my account for sure.

For anyone's wondering why the person managed to change my password, because my old phone number still tied to my account. And the phone carrier actually recycle the number if it's inactive for long period of time. So maybe that person who holds my old phone number attempts to hack it.
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Most of the true SMS hijack methods are tricky these days. Most of the time they phone up the carrier, act all upset and say their phone got stolen, get the number transferred to a new sim card and go from there.

As far as new user attempting to hack it if facebook allows you to log in with a phone number they might have tried to use that, found it in use and reset the password accordingly. Treat it as malice (it only makes sense if this is an account you value) but it is more likely to be something banal.
 
I still don't understand why they want to hack my account though, maybe they are doing it just for fun, but I'm still going to get very upset if my account really got hacked. One thing i worried the most is if they chat random shit on my friend list.

If SMS hijack requires social engineering then it should be hard to achieve, i guess.
 

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