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  2. 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.

  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. ... Be wary of any free programs, as many are actual ...

  4. 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.

  5. 2019 Baltimore ransomware attack - Wikipedia

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    Baltimore became the second U.S. city to fall victim to this new variant of ransomware after Greenville, North Carolina and was the second major US city with a population of over 500,000 people to be hacked by ransomware in two years, after Atlanta was attacked the previous year.

  6. ShinyHunters - Wikipedia

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    The group published around 1GB of data from the hacked GitHub account to a hacking forum. Some cybersecurity experts doubted the claims until analyzing the code; upon analysis, ShinyHunters' claims were no longer in question. Microsoft told Wired in a statement that they are aware of the breach. Microsoft later secured their GitHub account ...

  7. Atlanta government ransomware attack - Wikipedia

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    In response to this hack, Atlanta devoted $2.7 million to contractors in order to recover, but later estimated it would need $9.5 million. [ 13 ] On November 26, 2018, the Department of Justice indicted two Iranian hackers for the attack, charging that Faramarz Shahi Savandi and Mohammad Mehdi Shah Mansouri were part of the SamSam group and ...

  8. Why the city’s hacked website is unfit to be ‘official ...

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    The officials responsible for that fiasco are long gone — retired, moved on to different cities, new jobs, new careers, or deceased. Ditto for the other reporters who covered City Hall back then.

  9. Rural Texas towns report cyberattacks that caused one water ...

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    A hack that caused a small Texas town’s water system to overflow in January has been linked to a shadowy Russian hacktivist group, the latest case of a U.S. public utility becoming a target of ...