I remember thinking that it seemed slightly strange, but assumed it was for the previous run of promoted posts I’d ran a few weeks prior. I received an email from PayPal informing me that Facebook had taken payment for the sum of about £22. The first sign my fb ads account had been hacked Just dabbling, really.Īt the time my ads account got hacked, I had no ads of my own running, and the last one I ran was about three weeks prior. My entire history is limited to a handful of campaigns, and only ever spending small amounts (less than £20). I’ll also include some tips from any “lessons learned” along the way. So I decided to write up my experience in the hope that if it’s just happened to you, and your Facebook ads account has just been hacked, you might find this post and be reassured. Scarily, it was difficult to find much! There was one thread on a community forum inside facebook where someone had posed a similar question, but the lack of response was worrying… In the immediate aftermath of dealing with it as best as I could, I looked to the Web for stories about hacked facebook accounts, looking for reassurance that my case would probably be resolved. I’ve been online since the beginning of time (OK, about ’96) and to be fair, this is the first time anything like this has happened to me. Someone with bad intentions getting into your accounts. I recently had the unpleasant experience of discovering that someone had hacked my facebook advertisers account and set up an ad to spend £1200 per day! Here’s what I did about it, and the response I got back from Facebook.