How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked

Email privacy has become more and more of a concern each day. Emails are used to access sites of different kinds, especially sites that store personal information, such as credit card information, personal addresses, and phone numbers....

Part 1 of 2:

Checking Your Account Settings

  1. Picture 1 of How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
    Log into your Gmail account. Passwords are case-sensitive. Typing 'password' isn't the same as typing 'PASSWORD'.
  2. Picture 2 of How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
    Click your avatar. It's located in the upper right corner of your browser.
  3. Picture 3 of How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
    Click 'My Account'.
  4. Picture 4 of How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
    Click on 'Sign-in & security'.
  5. Picture 5 of How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
    Click 'Device activity & notifications'. It's located in the sidebar on the left.
  6. Picture 6 of How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
    Click 'Review events' under 'Recent security events'. Here, you'll be able to see any sign-in activity in the past 28 days.
  7. Picture 7 of How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
    Go back. Click the back button (left arrow) in the top left corner of your browser next to the URL address bar.
  8. Picture 8 of How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
    Click 'Review devices' under 'Recently used devices'.
  9. Picture 9 of How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
    Secure your account. If you see any strange sign-in activity or devices you don't recognize, click 'Secure your account' at the top of the page.
Part 2 of 2:

Changing Your Password

  1. Picture 10 of How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
    Log into your Gmail account.
  2. Picture 11 of How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
    Click on your avatar. It's in the upper right hand corner of your browser.
  3. Picture 12 of How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
    Click on 'My Account'.
  4. Picture 13 of How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
    Click 'Sign-in and security'.
  5. Picture 14 of How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
    Scroll down to 'Password & sign-in method'.
  6. Picture 15 of How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
    Click on 'Password'.
  7. Picture 16 of How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
    Enter your current password.
  8. Picture 17 of How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
    Enter your new password.
  9. Picture 18 of How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
    Click 'Change password'.
  10. Picture 19 of How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
    You will be signed out of all devices that currently has access to your email.
  11. Picture 20 of How to Check if Your Gmail Account Has Been Hacked
    Log into your account again using the new password.
Update 24 March 2020
clickpasswordaccountsign-

You should read it

Maybe you are interested

Category

System

Mac OS X

Hardware

Game

Tech info

Technology

Science

Life

Application

Electric

Program

Mobile