{"id":46914,"date":"2013-12-18T13:51:17","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T13:51:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=46914"},"modified":"2013-12-18T13:51:17","modified_gmt":"2013-12-18T13:51:17","slug":"email-hacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/email-hacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Has Your Email Been Hacked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/br><\/p>\n<h4>Has Your Email Been Hacked<\/h4>\n<p>by Mitz from Tips4pc.com<\/p>\n<p><i><font SIZE=\"2\">How to recover from your Gmail, Yahoo or MSN email accounts being hacked.<br \/>&#8211;PC Pitstop.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Recovering from a hacked email account can be easy or hard, depending on which email service provider you use and whether or not you have backups. Let\u2019s look at several likely scenarios, from most common to least common.<\/p>\n<p><strong>GMail, Yahoo Mail, Hotmail\/MSN Email<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many people use Web-based email from the three largest email service providers: Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. Breaking into one of these accounts is usually as simple as entering your email address or username and your password, so any hacker who gets your password from somewhere else (or guesses it), can break into your email. The reward for the hacker is that a lot of people store password emails and other valuable information in their email accounts, plus the hacker may be able to use your email account to scam people you know.<\/p>\n<p>After hackers break into your account, they\u2019ll often change your password or delete all of your emails (after downloading a copy of any emails they think might be useful). They\u2019ll also delete your address book (contacts database) so you can\u2019t immediately tell your friends and family that a hacker is using your identity to run a scam on them. You need to know how to check if your email account is hacked or not!<\/p>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/tips4pc.com\/email-2\/hacked-email-account.htm\" target=\"_blank\"> Article Continued Here<\/a><br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<p><em>This excerpt appears with permission from Tips4PC.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/techtalk.pcpitstop.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/email_theft.jpg\" alt=\"email hacked? 7 things to do\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33428\" \/><\/p>\n<p>How to recover from your Gmail, Yahoo or MSN email accounts being hacked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":66012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[834],"tags":[4598],"class_list":["post-46914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tips4pc","tag-email-securiity"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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