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  2. Recognize a hacked AOL Mail account

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    • Mail away message. If your account has been compromised. If you think your account has been compromised, follow the steps listed below to secure it. 1. Change your password immediately. 2. Delete app passwords you don’t recognize. 3. Revert your mail settings if they were changed. 4. Ensure you have antivirus software installed and ...

  3. Follow These Steps if You’ve Been Hacked

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    The main reason for doing this is that if one of your accounts is hacked, there’s no way to know for sure if others have been as well. Resetting your passwords will help prevent additional risks ...

  4. List of data breaches - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of reports about data breaches, using data compiled from various sources, including press reports, government news releases, and mainstream news articles.. The list includes those involving the theft or compromise of 30,000 or more records, although many smaller breaches occur continual

  5. Email hacking - Wikipedia

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    Email is a very widely used communication method. If an email account is hacked, it can allow the attacker access to the personal, sensitive or confidential information in the mail storage; as well as allowing them to read new incoming and outgoing email - and to send and receive as the legitimate owner.

  6. How email spoofing can affect AOL Mail

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    A compromised (hacked) account means someone else accessed your account by obtaining your password. Spoofed email occurs when the "From" field of a message is altered to show your address, which doesn't necessarily mean someone else accessed your account. You can identify whether your account is hacked or spoofed with the help of your Sent folder.

  7. What to do if locked out of Gmail, and what to do now if you ...

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    If you are already locked out of your Gmail account, ... From here, choose, "My account has been compromised" and you will be directed to the Gmail account recovery form. Show comments.

  8. Email spoofing - Wikipedia

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    Email spoofing is the creation of email messages with a forged sender address. [1] The term applies to email purporting to be from an address which is not actually the sender's; mail sent in reply to that address may bounce or be delivered to an unrelated party whose identity has been faked.

  9. Someone hacked your account. Now what? How to navigate the ...

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    According to Murray, it only takes around 20 minutes, and it's useful even if you don't think your data has been stolen. "It just makes me crazy because people talk about, 'Oh, I'll get around to ...