Here's how to check if you were affected in the Facebook hack - and how to delete your Facebook account

Users who were affected will get a message in the coming days, Facebook says. The message will include information on what people can do to best protect themselves from suspicious emails, text messages, and calls.

By deleting your account, you will actually remove your personal information from Facebook's servers. This will delete everything you've ever put on Facebook — profile information, photos, status updates, timeline posts — but won't include messages sent via Facebook Messenger.

However, it will take a whole 30 days for your account to actually be deleted after you've requested it be removed.. This "grace period" used to be 14 days, but it was reported last week that Facebook raised it to a month. This gives users an opportunity to re-activate their account if they get cold feet before making it permanent.

If you don't want to lose everything you've put on Facebook, there is an option to download a copy of all your information. You have to request this archive before deleting your account, and you'll have it sent to you via email. If you delete your account before you request this archive, you're out of luck, so be careful.