Think your email has been hacked? Learn the warning signs, how to check for unauthorized access and what to do to recover and secure your account.

Update, Dec. 07, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 05, has been updated with examples of the kind of cyber-attacks used by hackers and scammers to lock you out of your Gmail account. A Dec.

Hackers hijack mail accounts to send spam unnoticed under someone else's name. But the intruders leave traces, and there are also ways to get rid of them again. The first sign that something’s wrong ...

Cybercriminals are increasingly using methods that don't require knowing a victim's password to gain access to online ...

This week a reader asks about how to recover an email account that disappeared off their phone. "My wife had her email account disappear (like into cyberspace). We've tried to restore via reboot and ...

It’s been quite a while since I’ve received an apologetic email from a contact saying their account had been hacked and a recent email most definitely sent to me wasn’t from them. But this still ...

Many of us have a lot of digital data locked away in our Google accounts: emails, photos, chats, documents, schedules, restaurant reviews. Losing access to that data is likely to be fairly high on the ...