{"id":3663,"date":"2015-06-16T05:58:12","date_gmt":"2015-06-15T19:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/?p=3663"},"modified":"2015-06-15T10:57:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-15T00:57:11","slug":"recovering-email-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/recovering-email-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Recovering from your email being \u2018hacked\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/why-need-img-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3664\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/why-need-img-1-150x150.png\" alt=\"why-need-img-1\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/why-need-img-1-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/why-need-img-1-55x55.png 55w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/why-need-img-1-75x75.png 75w, https:\/\/techdaily.com.au\/b2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/why-need-img-1.png 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>If\u00a0<\/span>you&#8217;ve<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0ever tried to log into your\u00a0<\/span>web mail<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0account only to find that your password\u00a0<\/span>doesn&#8217;t<span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">\u00a0work then chances are your account has been compromised and is under the control of another person.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>If this happens to you it\u2019s important to fix this issue quickly as not only does a compromised email account mean that someone else is potentially harvesting personal information about you but the account may also be used to send spam to your friends.<\/p>\n<p>With services like <a href=\"http:\/\/gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\">Gmail<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.live.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hotmail<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mail.yahoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo mail<\/a> you can usually reset your password quickly using <a href=\"http:\/\/answers.microsoft.com\/en-us\/outlook_com\/forum\/osecurity-osafe\/important-ive-forgotten-my-hotmail-password-and\/4b847ce7-f990-405e-ae04-c876fc8525a9\" target=\"_blank\">security questions<\/a> that you had set up previously. \u00a0 Also to protect from future email hacking, consider using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com.au\/landing\/2step\/\" target=\"_blank\">2-step authentication<\/a> which involves having to enter a code sent your your mobile before any password can be changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If\u00a0you&#8217;ve\u00a0ever tried to log into your\u00a0web mail\u00a0account only to find that your password\u00a0doesn&#8217;t\u00a0work then chances are your account has been compromised and is under the control of another person. 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