Signal
New administrator added
Unfamiliar access appeared at 02:12
Always-on protection for your ad accounts
Protect your ad spend
from Hacks
Even When You’re Not Watching.
AdFence monitors your Meta, Google, and TikTok ad accounts and alerts you to suspicious changes, wasted spend, and delivery problems.
Approved & Compliant
High
Landing page is down. Ads are still running.
8 active ads affected
$1,840 spent since page became unreachable
View affected ads
Critical
Unknown admin added to your Business Manager
Admin access · First seen 8 minutes ago
Review access
High
Meta delivery issue affecting 3 of your accounts
Performance dropped across all 3 accounts
Official platform status: No incident reported yet
View impact
Critical
Unexpected spend spike detected
$120 spent in the last 32 minutes
Daily budget changed: $500 → $5,000
Review spend
- Monitor
- Check account changes
- Alert
- Reach your team
- Act
- Take approved action
- Document
- Keep the incident record
Ad spend leaks
Eight problems worth catching.
Hacks, mistakes, and outages leave different warning signs.
- Example 1 of 8
A destination breaks or changes
A broken page, expired SSL, or unfamiliar domain sends paid clicks to the wrong place.
12 adsSending traffic to a broken page - Example 2 of 8
A budget jumps
An extra zero or a deliberate edit pushes a budget beyond the account's usual pattern.
10x$200/day → $2,000/day - Example 3 of 8
Ads target the wrong market
Copied settings or a takeover can send spend to a country you do not sell to.
+3 countriesOutside your approved targeting - Example 4 of 8
Delivery stops unnoticed
An expired card, spend limit, or account restriction stops campaigns your team expects to be running.
0 deliveryCampaigns stopped unexpectedly - Example 5 of 8
The platform has an outage
A Meta, Google, or Shopify incident can look like a campaign problem.
3 accountsAffected by the same platform incident - Example 6 of 8
Unfamiliar access appears
An unknown admin, partner, or connected app gains access that a password reset may not remove.
1 new adminFirst seen 8 minutes ago - Example 7 of 8
Tracking goes silent
A site update removes the pixel or purchase events stop while campaigns keep spending.
4h silentPurchase events stopped reporting - Example 8 of 8
An unexpected ad account appears
Attackers can create an ad account under your Business Manager and spend through your credit line or business payment method.
1 new accountNot currently under monitoring
Incident flows/Preview
Account takeover response
Guided tour01DetectSignals arrive
Signal
Destination changed
northstar.com → offer-deals.co
Signal
Spend increased sharply
+1,376% against the recent pattern
02UnderstandOne incident
AdFencegroups related signals
Possible account takeover
AdFence connects the access, destination, and spend changes into one incident, then alerts the team.
GroupedBaselineConfidenceDeduped
03DecideHuman choice
Authorized user
Team reviews the changes
An authorized user chooses an available response in the ad platform.
04RecordKept for review
History
Incident timeline kept
Signals, alert, and decision remain in activity history.
How it works
Connect, learn, monitor, respond.
01Step
Connect
Connect Meta, Google, or TikTok through OAuth and choose your accounts; monitoring is read-only by default.
02Step
Learn
AdFence builds a baseline from recent account history: spend, domains, targeting, campaigns, and tracking.
03Step
Monitor
Every 15 minutes, AdFence checks for unusual changes, broken signals, access risks, and spend problems.
04Step
Respond
Review alerts, mark safe changes, trigger Kill Switch when needed, and keep the evidence.
Platform coverage
- Meta Ads
- Google Ads
- TikTok Ads
- More coming soon
Incident wall
What advertisers have reported.
Third-party reports, with a link to every original source.
- Meta AdsAccount takeover
The Daily Telegraph reported that Cleonie Swim discovered unfamiliar ads after a Meta account hack, with an unexpected bill of $12,382.
Jun 2026Read the report, source: The Daily Telegraph, June 2026 (opens in a new tab) - ShopifyPlatform outage
Reuters reported Shopify admin and point-of-sale disruption on Cyber Monday; some merchants also encountered checkout-related issues.
Dec 2025Read the report, source: Reuters, December 2025 (opens in a new tab) - Google AdsRunaway spend
The Times of India reported unauthorized Google ads over two days for Old School Rituals, with expenditure of ₹12.7 crore, around 850 times its usual daily budget.
May 2025Read the report, source: The Times of India, May 2025 (opens in a new tab) - Google AdsRogue accounts
Monica W. reported admins changed to read-only, hundreds of unauthorized Google accounts, and an invoice above $300,000 while recovery continued weeks later.
Jul 2026Read the thread, source: Google Ads Community, July 2026 (opens in a new tab)
These are third-party reports, not AdFence customer testimonials.
Access watch
Know who has access. Know every account.
Track access changes and new accounts, including those outside your monitoring.
Users
See users across Meta, Google, and TikTok; get alerts when someone is added, removed, or promoted.
Partners
Track partner access requests, additions, and expanded permissions.
Connected Apps
Spot unfamiliar Meta apps that can remain connected after a password change.
Account Radar
Find new ad accounts under your Business Manager, including ones you did not create.
Meta BM #481 -Acme Corp
scan · 02:31
- Admin
- Manager
- Advertiser
New · Account Radar
"Northwind Retail: Ad Account #4"
appeared under your BM · $840 spent in 12h
Mark SafePause Ads
Removed
access revoked 2h ago
Spend protection
Monitor changes, wasted spend, and delivery problems
Watch campaign and targeting changes, destination health, product availability, tracking, billing, and account status on Meta, Google, or TikTok.
Destination health
Live ads. Unreachable landing page.
AdFence checks live-ad destinations for broken links, expired SSL, and pages or stores unreachable in a country you advertise in.
Landing page unreachable02:14:07
Down for
2h 12m
- Spent while down
- $4,380
- Active ads affected: 12
- http://shop.com/products/summer-sale
Unreachable from Germany · Ads still active
Product availability
Checks whole products linked in ads by reading the destinations those ads point to, and alerts when unavailable, including no purchasable variants. An individual sold-out variant stays out of scope while others remain purchasable. No store integration, alert only.
A product sells out while its ads keep running.
Budget & Campaign Changes
Flag unexpected campaigns, budget jumps, structural changes, and targeting or country shifts against the account's normal pattern, learned from recent account history. A market added to targeting can send spend somewhere you do not sell to.
A daily budget jumps while targeting expands.
Destination & Pixel Checks
Check live-ad domains against your trusted list, flag unfamiliar destinations, and read the pages behind them for broken links or expired SSL. Notice when a pixel disappears, stops firing, or an unfamiliar pixel appears while campaigns keep spending.
An ad points to a domain outside your trusted list.
Platform, Billing & Account Status
Tell relevant Meta, Google, and Shopify incidents, including problems the platform has not yet acknowledged, apart from a failed card, exhausted balance, or spend limit. Catch limits, disabled accounts, or bans on Meta, Google, or TikTok.
A failed card stops active campaigns overnight.
- Account statusActive
- BillingHealthy
- Destinations12 / 12 reachable
- PlatformNo active incidents
Kill Switch
Choose the response before you need it.
AdFence alerts you first; if nobody responds within your configured window, Kill Switch can take only the actions you approved in advance.
Stop spend
Pause active campaigns, set spending limits, or lower budgets using the actions you approved.
Reversible By Admin
Auto response
Choose a response window; an unanswered critical incident can trigger your preapproved action when it expires.
2h Response Window → Auto Action
Set the action
Choose in advance which actions AdFence may take if you do not respond.
Limit damage
Stop affected accounts while healthy accounts keep running.
Coverage
One account compromised → we pause just that account. Access-level breach → we pause ads across the whole BM. The response matches the threat: your healthy accounts keep running.
Manual Dispatch
Choose a Business Manager and action, then follow execution status in real time.
Through Email
Open the Kill Switch link in a critical alert email to dispatch a response.
Auto-trigger
Execute preapproved actions when an alert meets your severity threshold and remains unanswered past your window.
Evidence packs
Keep a record support can review.
Evidence Packs combine minute-level timelines, spend impact, and signed records for support cases, refund requests, and client reporting.
AdFence Evidence Pack
EP-2026-0047 · Jun 4, 02:31 AM
- 02:14Spend spike detected+1,376%
- 02:14New domain flaggedrx-deals.xyz
- 02:15Geo targeting changed+3 countries
- 02:29Cross-signal CRITICAL alert firedconfidence 0.96
- Normal daily
- $840
- Incident spend
- $12,400
- Disputed amount
- $11,560
SHA-256 a3f8c2e9…4b7dHMAC Verified
PDF Report
A PDF summary of the timeline, impact, and incident details for support, clients, or legal review.
Recorded live
Timestamps are captured at detection by scans running every 15 minutes.
With Context
Add your own statement to record what your team knew.
Generate in your dashboard for an account compromise or platform spend issue.
Alerts that reach you
Reach your team where they work.
Route alerts with incident context and each member's delivery preferences.
- Slack
- Telegram
- In-App
- Webhook
Email
Slack
Telegram
In-App
WebhookQuiet Hours
Hold routine alerts. Critical incidents still break through.
Digest Mode
Bundle low-priority alerts into one clean daily summary.
Per-member preferences
Choose which alerts reach each person and where.
Smart throttling
Suppress repeats so one does not become ten alerts.
Act without leaving the alert
Review and respond in place. Take action or mark a legitimate change safe from Slack, Telegram, or email.
AdFence Alerts
Telegram · just now
CRITICAL · Spend spike detected
Northwind Retail
Spent in last 30 min $3,420
DismissMark Safe
For agencies
20 accounts.Unlimited clients.One dashboard.
Separate each client's accounts, alerts, and team access in one dashboard.
One workspace per client
Separate accounts, alerts, settings, team access, and notifications for each client.
Find new client accounts
Account Radar spots new client ad accounts that could otherwise sit outside monitoring.
Move accounts between workspaces
Reassign accounts without reconnecting platforms or rebuilding your setup.
One-click offboarding
See where departing teammates or freelancers still have access and remove their permissions.
Catch campaign mistakes
Flag wrong links, wrong countries, and extra zeros in budgets.
Trusted contacts
Send critical alerts and scheduled reports to trusted contacts without giving them workspace access.
Security
Read-only unless you allow writes.
Monitoring never edits your ad accounts; actions such as Kill Switch require separate opt-in permission.
Certifications & reviews
2FA when it matters
Two-factor authentication is required for sensitive actions, with fresh verification before a critical change.
1 of 6Every action logged
Keep account changes, security actions, and team activity logged for review.
2 of 6Tokens encrypted, always
Access tokens are encrypted at rest with AES-256-GCM and never sent to your browser.
3 of 6Step-up verification
Sensitive actions require fresh identity verification, not just an open session.
4 of 6Session control
Review every active device and recent session activity, then sign out other sessions as needed.
5 of 6What we can't do
AdFence cannot create ads, change budgets, or modify platform access unless you explicitly grant write access.
6 of 6
All systems operational· 99.97% uptime last 90 days
Always on
Monitoring around the clock.
Every 15 min
Scan cadence
24 / 7
Monitoring coverage
All systems operational99.98% uptime · Updated 2m ago