There could be many reasons for hacking someone's Facebook account and it is not as simple as we speak. One should know the fact that there are no direct softwares that can hack Facebook account simply by entering the victim's user id. But it is possible with some methods those really work, out of which phishing, key logging, packet sniffing are most popular and widely used ones. Today, in this tutorial you are going to learn how to perform packet sniffing attack to hack Facebook account using your Android smartphone.

What exactly is packet sniffing?

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Let’s make this simple with an example. Consider two persons A and B using the same public WiFi network. The information sent and received between the device and WiFi hot-spot is done in the form of packets. These packets are not secured and can be access by any other device connected to same network. If Person A is using Facebook, his log-in credentials are sent in the form of packets which Person B can access and read them. In fact, Person B can modify them. Not only log-in credentials, everything you use within your browser can be seen and modified by anyone else as long as you are connected to that network.

So, Why Android Phone?

Earlier, when this process is first developed the only way to do packet sniffing is using PC or laptop running on Windows or Linux operating system. But now it can be done using any Android phone with root access (we shall talk about this later). The main reason for using Android phone is simplicity. It works same as PC, in terms of speed and accuracy. It has same number of tools as PC. And when you are in crowd, you can simply take out your mobile and do some hacking anonymously.

Does the Android Phone require any particular specs?

No particular specifications are needed for your Android device to do this. But your device needs to be rooted. For a brief explanation of what rooting is, read the tutorial on "How to Root Any Android Device".