Good afternoon, it's Micheal with you here. To be honest, I had planned on sending this newsletter out on Monday, but it was absolute crisis time at HQMy personal Facebook profile was hacked, as in properly attacked – complete with the Arabic profile pic and cover photo. Random friends added. Then came the booting off of admin privileges on Armagh I – absolute panic stations at this point (all within minutes of becoming aware of what was happening)! All but one Armagh I admin had been removed by the time I noticed the intrusion. Fortunately, I have my wife Melany on there as a backup, and for some reason she hadn't been removed at this point so I was able to salvage my privileges. I added myself back on her phone, but by the time I got to the computer I was off again, so it was a live attack. I just had to be quicker. Anyway, in a two-pronged attacked I was able to remove the three rogue profiles that had infiltrated the system, and make myself admin again. The Armagh I Facebook page saved – just! That was alright until BOOOM!!! – my bank account was haemorrhaging cash. PayPal was taking Facebook payments left, right and centre. They had hacked my very dormant Facebook Ad account and had ads set with a daily limit of £250 for the next month. Thankfully, Facebook pulled the plug on that automatically after £50+ had been spent (in about 6 minutes!!) They deemed it unusual – eh, you think!!
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Good afternoon, it's Micheal with you here. To be honest, I had planned on sending this newsletter out on Monday, but it was absolute crisis time at HQMy personal Facebook profile was hacked, as in properly attacked – complete with the Arabic profile pic and cover photo. Random friends added. Then came the booting off of admin privileges on Armagh I – absolute panic stations at this point (all within minutes of becoming aware of what was happening)! All but one Armagh I admin had been removed by the time I noticed the intrusion. Fortunately, I have my wife Melany on there as a backup, and for some reason she hadn't been removed at this point so I was able to salvage my privileges. I added myself back on her phone, but by the time I got to the computer I was off again, so it was a live attack. I just had to be quicker. Anyway, in a two-pronged attacked I was able to remove the three rogue profiles that had infiltrated the system, and make myself admin again. The Armagh I Facebook page saved – just! That was alright until BOOOM!!! – my bank account was haemorrhaging cash. PayPal was taking Facebook payments left, right and centre. They had hacked my very dormant Facebook Ad account and had ads set with a daily limit of £250 for the next month. Thankfully, Facebook pulled the plug on that automatically after £50+ had been spent (in about 6 minutes!!) They deemed it unusual – eh, you think!!