Is my email address and password hacked? Always change your password every 6 to 12 months, this is because new data is being stolen every day and sold. How to protect yourself? Have I been pwned? The site came about after what was, at the time, the largest ever single breach of customer accounts — Adobe. In short, it is a reverse search engine that will check your email or password against a huge list of stolen data from various sources.
To know if any of your accounts was compromised, just search for your own email address or password. Have your accounts been leaked or stolen in a data breach? Find out at Firefox Monitor. Search their database and sign up for alerts.
A data breach happens when personal or private information gets exposed, stolen or copied without permission. DeHashed is a hacked-database search-engine created for security analysts, journalists, security companies, and everyday people to help secure accounts and provide insight on database breaches and account leaks. What can you search for? Their advanced systems and huge database allows you to search for IP addresses, emails, usernames, names, phone numbers, VIN numbers, addresses; and what makes them even more unique is they allow you to reverse search passwords, hashes, and more!
To protect yourself, you are strongly advised to stop reusing passwords across multiple sites and always keep strong and complex passwords for your various online accounts. If possible use programs like KeePass or two-factor authentication to generate strong passwords and change them at least once a year.
Use this free service to see if an email address is in any hacked data from known breaches. Get a summary of what specific information may be at risk, critical personal identity alerts, a relative exposure rating and more. Results are shown immediately — no verification, upgrades or extra steps required.
Email addresses are not saved after analysis. Password Checkup helps you rescue accounts that were affected by data breaches. Please reset your password.
If you use the same username and password for any other accounts, please reset your password there as well. I changed my password, however in the alternate emails their is an address which is NOT mine and it will not allow me to delete it. How can I get this alternate removed? Is there any way of accessing these since I think they are the email addresses of my lost contacts.
And when I clicked to refuse the invitation, hooray, they disappeared from the abbreviated Contacts list! They had never shown on the contacts list that appears when you click the sidebar option. So if your account has been hacked, why would they use your contact list alerting you of the breach? Why not just browse through your emails many of mine had files attached and get the info they are looking for.
Since I have my emails saved every time I send, they now have my password list, financial records, resume, etc. This is the worst thing that could have happened. Are there some hackers that just go in and steal your contact list. That would have given them lots of time to browse. Wendy It might be a good idea to contact your credit card companies and inquire if there has been any recent activity on your accounts, block those cards if necessary and change any passwords that you may have on those lists.
I read the answer above, but for me I could not access to mail inbox or option,, just show that me user name and password are correct but I could not access to my page. Hussein, You might want to know that posting your email to a live forum like this greatly increases the spam you get, and also your likelihood of being hacked.
Getting your email back is going to be difficult, and along with that it would be good to learn some basic safety tips as taught regularly here in Ask Leo! WLM client Version Build I changed my account password after the 09May incident; I could not find any indication that anything had been altered.
I have also deleted all contacts. As was mentioned in the thread, it seems unlikely that someone with malicious intent would send out emails to advertise his activities. The timing raises suspicion that the 25Apr WLE update could be a factor. Leo, thanks for the fast reply to my 09May post.
Of course that leaves the question of the additional recipients. The 2nd email added the one additional address I emailed on 03May. IOW, the targets seem more likely to be derived solely from my outgoing mail rather than my contacts list, although I have no idea how that could happen. My account must have been hacked — everyone in my contact list received a spam email from me. Lynn, Read this article… it will help: Email hacked?
Your live. Changing your password and all password recovery information is the right thing to do. Comments violating those rules will be removed. Comments that don't add value will be removed, including off-topic or content-free comments, or comments that look even a little bit like spam.
All comments containing links and certain keywords will be moderated before publication. I want comments to be valuable for everyone, including those who come later and take the time to read. Search Ask Leo! Do this Subscribe to Confident Computing! I'll see you there! I had my email hacked into and cant get into my email, they changed my question, my friends got emails from my email asking for money That is correct.
Your account is most likely gone forever. What do I do? If Hotmail has been of no help, I know of no way to get the account back. This is one of the many reasons I so strongly recommend agaist free accounts for important stuff. No idea. Your friend would have to describe better exactly how he can do what he claims.
My guess is that you changed only your password. Please read: Is changing my password enough? Short answer: no. Thanks I would strongly recommend that you do so.
This is one reason why having the same password for everything is such a bad idea. Please read this article which discusses your recovery options for the various ways that Hotmail accounts can be lost or compromised: What are my Lost Hotmail Account and Password Recovery Options?
I am disgusted to find that someone has accessed my hotmail address book and sent the following advert to everybody in my address book: How to protect my hotmail contact list Reply.
This article discusses recovery options for the various ways that Hotmail accounts can be lost or compromised: What are my Lost Hotmail Account and Password Recovery Options? Repeat for all offenders. If you have been hacked you may need to change more than your password: Is changing my password enough?
With respect,. See subject line above. Since then some emails are erased, I am unable to receive emails and some contacts have been erased Does anyone have a phone number at Microsoft where I might get this resolved?
I have the same question 0. Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Juhn Jac Microsoft Agent. Hello SheilaBuchanan1 , Thank you for bringing this to our attention and we appreciate your time posting your Office concern here in Microsoft Community Forum. How satisfied are you with this reply? Thanks for your feedback, it helps us improve the site. In reply to Juhn Jac's post on December 15, Are you an employee of Microsoft or another user? In reply to SheilaBuchanan1's post on December 16, Hello SheilaBuchanan1 , Thank you for getting back to us.
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