What to do when your social media account is hacked

While waiting to regain access of your account, it is key to notify your contacts that you have been hacked. [Courtesy]

With the advancement of technology, hackers have gone a notch higher with their skills in information technology by using their technical knowledge within a computerized system by non-standard means.

The Facebook page of a leading local university was taken over, in early May, with the hacker (an Indonesian teenager) demanding Sh68,000 ransom. By the time of publishing this article, the learning institution was yet to recover the hacked page.