Recovering from an email acount breach
Last Updated: 4/25/16Here are some emails that talk about having your email account compromised.
(!) Keep in mind the attacker may abuse your account for only a minute or use your account to take over your other accounts. So you may need to recovery your account quickly or if that is not possible, start changing the email address you have registered with your other website accounts before the attacker tries to reset all those passwords!
What to Do When Your Email Account is Hacked? | GoHacking
http://www.gohacking.com/what-to-do-when-email-account-is-hacked/
Recover a compromised Gmail account - Gmail Help
https://support.google.com/mail/answer/50270?hl=en
Yahoo! Helpcentral | SLN2090 - How to tell if your account was hacked
https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN2090.html
How to Recover When Your Email Account Is Hacked
http://us.norton.com/yoursecurityresource/detail.jsp?aid=email_hacked
Note: If you account is not currently compromised, then do yourself a favor and update your account recovery options!
Account Recovery / Password Recovery Options*
| Reset via secondary email | Reset via Text Message | Reclaim account through support team and description of recent activity |
Update my Recovery Options Now! | |
| Yes | Yes | Yes | https://myaccount.google.com/u/0/security#signin | |
| Yahoo | Yes | Yes | No | https://login.yahoo.com/account/security |
| Microsoft | Yes | Yes | Yes | https://account.microsoft.com/privacy |
* Based on experiences and a few minutes of research. Not official information.
Update your Facebook account info too!
https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=security&view
