What can I do if my FACEBOOK ACCOUNT is hacked?

A few weeks before I started writing this, the thing I've always read on my facebook news feed is, MY ACCOUNT WAS HACKED, MY ACCOUNT WAS HACKED, MY ACCOUNT WAS HACKED!!!!! I wish I could help, so I created this article thingymabob. hahahaha!

This is not the most effective way to get rid of the hacker-and let's call him H- but I hope it could help you.

Your facebook account is hacked.. There are three things how it happened...
The HACKER:
1.) Had access to your primary email address that is registered to facebook. (yahoo, AOL, hotmail, etc.)
2.) Knows your password or luckily guessed with a few series of trial and error by logging into your email address on facebook.
3.) Knows the answer to your security questions.
4.) Phishing Method

How could H have:

1.) Access to your Domain email address?

That's easy. They check if it's a valid email address and they go to https://edit.yahoo.com/forgot and retrieve by verifying your identity, (Birthdate, Location) and answering security questions.

2.) Known my email address?

From the INFO tab at your facebook page. The hacker can see your contact info if your email address is viewable by all.

3.) Known the answers to my security questions?

Maybe he/she is a close friend, a Stalker, or a family member. The hacker could answer them especially when you did NOT create your own questions. Never have security questions as easy as what is your nickname? or what is 2+2=? Thats's just plain stupidity.

4.) Phished my account?

Phishing method is for ALMOST experts. they create a FAKE facebook website wherein you will think that you have been logged out of the system, But you aren't. You will be given a link, and if you open it, It will redirect you to a site similar to facebook. It will make you enter your information, like E-mail address and password. And then BOOYA! They hit the jackpot. Password retrieved.

5.) Guessed my email address even though the privacy was set to "only me" can view?

Well, If your email address is your name and surname, That's a problem. you better change it as soon as possible.

How can I:

1.) Change my personal (such as security questions and Birthdate, and Location) so that H wouldn't have any access to my account anymore?

Once your beloved hacker ALREADY HAD access to your email address by YOUR OWN security questions, there's no way to prevent him from having a way inside anymore. Even if you change them, he could click the "This is not my question" link (you can find it at the bottom-middle part of the page while verifying your identity.) Then he's back to your old Q and A. Try it. :)

What you should do is change everything. Here is a step by step changing-email-address-to-prevent-the-hacker:

a.) Sign up for another email address.
b.) Change the registered e-mail ID in facebook.
c.) DELETE the e-mail you'll be receiveing from facebook about how your address will be changed to the new one.
d.) Don't forget to empty your "trash" folder. WHY? Because H might see your NEW email address.

2.)  Keep them from seeing my email address?

-That's easy. Log in to your Facebook account and go to Privacy settings -> Contact Information -> "your email address" then set the privacy  to "only me"

- Don't give your email address to anyone. Only to the people you can trust. If your email address is same to your IM ID, you should change it immediately.

3.) Restrain H from knowing the answers to my security question?
Piece of cake. Just type in your own questions that only YOU can know the answer.. Let's say for example:

What is your student ID?
What movie did you first see?
Nickname for the person you hated? (hahaha)

All WH-questions, just not with the yes or no answers.

4.) Stop H from Phishing my account?

Don't open links that you are suspicious of. As much as possible, every message you receive that is suspected to be a virus or a form of hacking, MARK it AS SPAM.