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  2. Recognize a hacked AOL Mail account

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    Signs of a hacked account • You're not receiving any emails. • Your AOL Mail is sending spam to your contacts. • You keep getting bumped offline when you're signed into your account. • You see logins from unexpected locations on your recent activity page. • Your account info or mail settings were changed without your knowledge.

  3. 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.

  4. Find and remove unusual activity on your AOL account

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    • Recent account changes - Shows the last 3 password changes. Click show all to see all changes. IP addresses in Recent activity. Your IP address is your location online and each session should start with the same few sets of numbers. Click any recent activity entry to view its IP address as well as the date and time it was collected. If one ...

  5. Follow These Steps if You’ve Been Hacked

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    Contact the business behind the account that’s been hacked – Once they are aware of the problem, they can halt any further activity, especially if it’s a financial account. They will likely ...

  6. 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.

  7. The “Fortnite Fraudster” stole my credit card—here’s what to ...

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    In a similar vein, you can use a virtual credit card for your online purchases. Looking back, I’m not exactly sure how the Fortnite Fraudster got the keys to my Chase Freedom Unlimited® account ...

  8. List of the most common passwords - Wikipedia

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    The Worst Passwords List is an annual list of the 25 most common passwords from each year as produced by internet security firm SplashData. [3] Since 2011, the firm has published the list based on data examined from millions of passwords leaked in data breaches, mostly in North America and Western Europe, over each year.

  9. Brute-force attack - Wikipedia

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    The attacker systematically checks all possible passwords and passphrases until the correct one is found. Alternatively, the attacker can attempt to guess the key which is typically created from the password using a key derivation function. This is known as an exhaustive key search. This approach doesn't depend on intellectual tactics; rather ...