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General Category => U.S. Fleet Cyber Command => Topic started by: DeptNav on January 15, 2014, 08:23:19 am


Title: Email Hacked? 7 things you should do NOW
Post by: DeptNav on January 15, 2014, 08:23:19 am
Email Hacked? 7 Things You Need to do NOW

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Email account theft is rampant. If it happens to you, there are several steps
that you need to take not only to recover your account, but to prevent it from being
easily hacked again.

It seems like not a day goes by where I don't get a question from someone that
boils down to their email account having been hacked. Someone, somewhere has
gained access to their account and has started using it to send spam. Sometimes
passwords are changed, sometimes not. Sometimes traces are left, sometimes
not. Sometimes everything in the account is erased, both contacts and saved
email, and sometimes not. But the one thing that all of these events share is that
suddenly several people, usually those on your contact list, start getting email from
"you" that you didn't send at all.

Your email account has been hacked.

Here's what you need to do next...

Read more in the attached document which is to large to post here.