What is actually happening when a Facebook account is “hacked”?

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I’m specifically referring to things like the ads for cheap sunglasses that I’ve been seeing for what seems like over a decade now and the more recent “look who died in an accident” video links that three of my elderly aunts have had on their accounts in the last year. Who is “hacking” these accounts and what are they gaining from it?

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Usually they replied to a phising email or left their Facebook logged in on a publicly accessible device. Most of these fake adds are for the purposes of collecting personal information which can be sold on to scammers.

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