In today’s Internet world, anyone can be hacked, which means your Facebook password could be hacked. Rest assured, the chance of that is less than .01% (unless the wrong virus gets into your PC). This article talks about the difficulty of stealing someone’s Facebook password. Is it easily done? The answer is no

If you Google “hack facebook password”, it returns almost 7 million results. You’ll find a lot of people claiming to have written programs that can do this hack. We tried to get several of these programs, but never could find one. If you search You Tube, you’ll find most of the links about this topic have the banner ‘Pulled due to inappropriate matter’ across the page. Some videos are still posted, and they present a slick demo about how their incredible programs work. When you click the link to download any of these magic beans, you get directed through mazes until you finally have to pop in a credit card. We even had our resident long-time hacker search his boards for “fbpassword.exe” and other file names: all dead links. We could not locate one of these programs.

We did find a working website we had to show you. It is a known hacker site & we do not advise you to spend much time there.

Just answer the 4 required questions, and click the Hack it button. This screen appears, with the symbols in the columns going up and down like in The Matrix:

What do you know? It worked!!!

Oh Man! You’ve finally made it. You’re going to click that Decrypt Password button and unlock all of your friend’s secrets.

Not so fast. You still have to jump through 3 more hoops including answering an email, before landing on a page that asks you to cough up 90 Euros ($114US 7/7/10) before this single password is revealed. These great guys even offer an unlimited # of hacks for a mere 50 Euros more. Wonder what they say to anyone foolish enough to send them money when the “hacked” password doesn’t work?

Hacking is an art, and there are a ton of Michelangelos out there. Software Knowledge could not find a way to easily steal a Facebook password, but we’re sure it can be done. When Facebook first started, their program could probably be ‘hacked’ pretty easily. We think a program or two probably did work once, but now their system is state of the art, and only beaten by a fluke (that is quickly fixed when found). For the heck of it, we threw a couple of brute force attacks and other ‘kiddie’ measures at facebook; none came close to having any success.

Why are we sure someone could hack your password? It can be done because of programs called ‘key-stroke loggers’. If someone (somehow, often using a virus) installs one of these programs on your PC, everything you type get recorded to a secret file that only the hacker can open. When he or she finds facebook.com in the file, they know the next thing is the username and password. This method is how many professional hackers steal bank and credit card passwords. An even more advanced way to hack someone is to ‘capture their packets’ as they fly along the Internet. You might as well throw away your computer if you have a bad breakup with someone possessing these skills.

I’m serious about how easy is it to be hacked, regardless of the defenses you put up. Watch my YouTube video about what happened at Citi Corp & Sony. Think about how much money they spend and were still ‘swiss cheese’. In today’s age of identity theft, you might be very smart to look into services like LifeLock to keep a consistent eye on your private information, especially if you use online banking.

In closing, a few Tips about Passwords…

Use at least 8 digits (using numbers and letters with one Capital makes them much stronger)

Don’t use the same password everywhere. Have one for your banking accounts, one for your main email and other important things, then one for your least important things.

Don’t use any of these passwords (they are the general 10 most common): 123456, jesus, password, love, 12345678, Christ, jesus1, princess, blessed and sunshine. We found one article listing the top 250 – which is ‘hotdog’ in case you were interested.