After the Hack: What To Do With Your Compromised Accounts
Quick and thorough action is required
Sure it will never happen to you? You may be careful with your passwords, don’t fall for get rich quick scams and are pretty sure that the ‘click here’ for a free laptop was legitimate... In other words you're too smart to be conned. Well, even smart people have bad things happen to them and getting your email or social media account hacked is a possibility. Email accounts are taken over by criminals for several reasons, including: Report The Offense Immediately As soon as you detect that your email account or social media profile has been compromised report it to the email provider or social media site. Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo and other webmail services have methods of resetting your account’s passwords. From the login …
