Windows 10: Another Account of Mine Was Hacked and The Hacker Replaced the Email

RapidFactor · Feb 20, 2022

I'm asking this question on a secondary account due to this situation, but my account was hacked and the person who hacked it changed the email for it. Due to the email being changed it no longer says it exists when I try to fill out any forms or try to sign in to the account. Is there any way this can be helped?

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TheMailMan78 · Feb 20, 2022

email account hacked. please help

Also may I suggest you change email accounts to one of the following.....

Gmail
Outlook

The reason is they both use "Step two verification". This style of verification means even if a hacker gets your password they cannot log in to your account. You see every time someone try's to log in that hasn't been verified you will get a text or a phone call giving you a final code to log in. Its very easy and simple to setup also. The great thing is once you setup your Email application with a specific "application password" from that account you never have to log in again AND your account is protected from being logged in from foreign entities.

I like the new outlook personally however Gmail is also damn good. Gmail also has an IP tracker that allows you to see WHERE the account has been logged in from. Anyway let us know if you wanna change over and have any questions. We will be happy to help and welcome to TPU!

Rubi · Feb 20, 2022

Hacked email

Hi

If a spammer is using a hacked/spoofed email account to send out emails, then all you do is send a bounceback to the original hacked account, not the hacker/Spammer "he does not include his email in the list". The hacker/Spammer does not know it has been bounced back and you continue to recieve emails from them. However, all that has happened is that genuine people who have been hacked and have sent out these mass emails recieved bounce back emails that you or they can do noting about. "Apart from the obvious alert to change passwords"

To be honest, there is no real way to fight back unless you have specialised hardware or an exchange account so that spam is auto filtered before it is sent on to you.

If you are using online emails such as outlook, you can add emails to the blocked user or domain list, but spammers change so regularly and they still have your email address, so you cannot keep up.

Until email providers spend some money and provide realtime protection in there servers, we can do very little.

However, what you state in your post "2. change all your email passwords" is a great solution but everyone person needs to change their passwords and complexity on a regular basis to minimise / prevent email account hacking, but what % of the population do you think does that on a regular basis? This is where the weak link lies, even if password duration policies are set, they are mostly simple to remember passwords because we have so many password in our heads these days that we need a hard drive installed to remeber them all.

This said though, if it is junk email from companies etc, then you can bounce them back but most of the send email accounts are not monitored for email returns. "Please do not reply to this email"

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Thank you for this very clear explanation. Unfortunately, I do not have the kind of specialized hardware or exchange account to do what you suggest.

I find the subject interesting and what you wrote has added to my knowledge on the matter.

Regards.

webJockey · Feb 20, 2022

email account hacked. please help

I have a yahoo email account that seems to be hacked. Following are hacking activities I have noticed.

1) Spam emails being sent from my account to my account and my recovery email account.
2) Recent emails in inbox are missing
3) New emails in deleted mails folder

I have reset passwords for both my email account and recovery email account and also re-installed my mac but still spam emails are being sent from my account to my account and my recovery email account.

My mac was not even turned on when those emails were being sent. No one else knows my password. I do access mail from my iphone and ipad too.

Its my primary email account please help.

Thanks

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