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  2. Follow These Steps if You’ve Been Hacked

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    An online password suddenly doesn’t work anymore ... If you suspect a financial account has been hacked, change your password immediately and request a change of account, card numbers or PINs ...

  3. Recognize a hacked AOL Mail account

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    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 updated. 5.

  4. Ashley Madison data breach - Wikipedia

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    The company falsely asserted that paying them would "fully delete" the profiles, which the hack proved was untrue. [ 14 ] Josh Duggar , a 27-year-old man who had become famous as a teenage member of a conservative Christian family featured on a reality television series named 19 Kids and Counting , was one notable user of Ashley Madison whose ...

  5. Find and remove unusual activity on your AOL account

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    Depending on how you access your account, there can be up to 3 sections. If you see something you don't recognize, click Sign out or Remove next to it, then immediately change your password. • Recent activity - Devices or browsers that recently signed in. • Apps connected to your account - Apps you've given permission to access your info.

  6. Password cracking - Wikipedia

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    The purpose of password cracking might be to help a user recover a forgotten password (due to the fact that installing an entirely new password would involve System Administration privileges), to gain unauthorized access to a system, or to act as a preventive measure whereby system administrators check for easily crackable passwords. On a file ...

  7. 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.

  8. List of security hacking incidents - Wikipedia

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    February 8: Foxconn is hacked by a hacker group, "Swagg Security", releasing a massive amount of data including email and server logins, and even more alarming—bank account credentials of large companies like Apple and Microsoft. Swagg Security stages the attack just as a Foxconn protest ignites against terrible working conditions in southern ...

  9. A UK man allegedly used genealogy sites to hack execs ... - AOL

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    The 39-year-old also is accused of using Captcha solvers and hacking manuals to reset passwords. A UK man allegedly used genealogy sites to hack execs’ email accounts and make millions on stock ...