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  2. How to Recover a Hacked Facebook Account - AOL

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    The “Password and Security” page also includes a list titled “Where You’re Logged in.”. If there’s a log-in that you don’t recognize, follow these steps: Click on the suspicious log ...

  3. Recognize a hacked AOL Mail account - AOL Help

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    Email filters • Display name • Email signature • Blocked addresses • Mail away message. If your account has been compromised. If you think your account has been compromised, follow the steps listed below to secure it. 1. Change your password immediately. 2. Delete app passwords you don’t recognize. 3. Revert your mail settings if ...

  4. Follow these steps if you've been hacked

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    Here are some steps you should take if you discover you’ve been hacked: Contact the business behind the account that’s been hacked – Once they are aware of the problem, they can halt any ...

  5. How email spoofing can affect AOL Mail - AOL Help

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    How email spoofing can affect AOL Mail. Spoofing happens when someone sends emails making it look like it they were sent from your account. In reality, the emails are sent through a spoofer's non-AOL server. They show your address in the "From" field to trick people into opening them and potentially infecting their accounts and computers.

  6. Find and remove unusual activity on your AOL account

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    Remove suspicious activity. From a desktop or mobile browser, sign in and visit the 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. • Apps connected to your account - Apps you've ...

  7. Social hacking - Wikipedia

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    Social hacking describes the act of attempting to manipulate outcomes of social behaviour through orchestrated actions. The general function of social hacking is to gain access to restricted information or to a physical space without proper permission. Most often, social hacking attacks are achieved by impersonating an individual or group who ...

  8. How to protect your passwords from hackers for good - AOL

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    One of the easiest ways for hackers to get their hands on your sensitive information is by stealing your passwords. The FTC says that creating “long and strong” passwords is crucial to your ...

  9. Email hacking - Wikipedia

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    Email is a very widely used communication method. If an email account is hacked, it can allow the attacker access to the personal, sensitive or confidential information in the mail storage; as well as allowing them to read new incoming and outgoing email - and to send and receive as the legitimate owner. On some email platforms, it may also ...