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> I suspect that account credentials acquired from breaches of non-Facebook services are being used to attempt to access Facebook accounts.

Given you more or less gave away the idea that you reuse your own passwords, if you haven't already, I suggest you start using a password manager and changing all your passwords to something random.



They did mention it was 5 years ago; password managers have become a lot more popular in that time.


You don't need to manage a password of an abandoned account.

Just make it long and random.


Theoretically, it should require an email to reactivate an account. OP didn't get one I bet.


OP did get an email. It's mentioned on line 4 of the post!


I certainly didn't manage passwords very well years ago.

I've been using a password manager for some time now.




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