“Attention, a lot of profiles are probably being hacked at the moment.”
The warning below is currently making the rounds on Facebook. The warning reads : “Attention, many profiles are currently being hacked. The hack goes like this: You are tagged with others and a link is posted where you can see your FB friends, or something similar. Please don’t click on the link.”

Is this statement true?
Yes, although you can't say "hacked" here, because the user fell victim to a so-called phishing trap on Facebook. In this case, the user was presented with a so-called “profile viewer”, which promises that you can see which other users have visited the respective profile. These are often these or similar status posts:

If you follow the status post here, you as a user will end up on a Facebook login page that has been copied by cybercriminals. The user gets the feeling that he first has to log in with his data on Facebook, but this process can end with fraudsters taking over the respective profile and the associated groups and pages where the user has admin rights no longer has access.
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From this moment on, most users speak of “hacked”, as incorrectly mentioned above.

Have users been hacked?
No, they were almost never hacked, but rather gave the criminals their login details voluntarily. To make it clear again: There is no way to see the visitors to your own profile! However, this hope is repeatedly used by criminals to let users fall into various traps with an alleged “profile viewer”.
This is what Facebook itself writes on this topic:
I think I've fallen victim to phishing. What can I do? If you accidentally entered your username or password in a suspicious link, it is possible that a stranger will log into your account. The following measures could help you:
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If you're able to sign in to your account, secure your account , reset your password, and sign out of any devices that aren't yours.
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If you can't sign in to your account and your username or password doesn't work, restore your account .
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If you want to see if anything unusual has happened on your account, check recent activity and recent emails from Facebook .
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You can report suspicious emails at any time to phish@fb.com .
Also read: Alleged Facebook profile viewers and the traps behind them
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