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Know the warning signs and what to do if your account has been compromised. Signs of a hacked account • You're not receiving any emails. • Your AOL Mail is sending spam to your contacts. • You keep getting bumped offline when you're signed into your account. • You see logins from unexpected locations on your recent activity page.
Depending on how you access your account, there can be up to 3 sections. If you see something you don't recognize, click Sign out or Remove next to it, then immediately change your password. • Recent activity - Devices or browsers that recently signed in. • Apps connected to your account - Apps you've given permission to access your info.
This time, it's LinkedIn and eHarmony, but it seems like only yesterday that Sony, Zappos, Nintendo, AT&T, Global Payments, and even the Department of Defense were scrambling to You've Been Hacked ...
LinkedIn has been hacked. Reports surfaced Wednesday that 6.5 million passwords of users on the leading corporate social networking website were compromised. LinkedIn (LNKD) is investigating the ...
June 5: The social networking website LinkedIn has been hacked and the passwords for nearly 6.5 million user accounts are stolen by cybercriminals. As a result, a United States grand jury indicted Nikulin and three unnamed co-conspirators on charges of aggravated identity theft and computer intrusion.
Tip #4: If you are not absolutely sure what an attachment is, don't open it. Whenever you receive an email from someone you don't know, make it a practice to never click on the links embedded in it.
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
Email sent from someone pretending to be someone else is known as spoofing. Spoofing may take place in a number of ways. Common to all of them is that the actual sender's name and the origin of the message are concealed or masked from the recipient.