Someone hacked my email contacts

Yes No. Sorry this didn't help. Thanks for your feedback. I would like to ask if you also experienced the same issue with Shadowhawk0? Also, please provide us a more detailed description of the issue you have encountered for us to be able to give the proper resolution. My contacts are getting emails that say I am in Portugal, requesting money to be sent! What do I do now, and how can I prevent this from happening again? Thank You! This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread.

I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. These are 7 things you should already know about a hacked account or if your machine was accessed remotely by an unknown person 1-Recover your account if you can Important: If you cannot recover access to your account, then it is now someone else's account. It is now the hacker's account. To prevent your account from being hacked in the future, see Help protect your Outlook. Malware — If you install a program from the Internet that isn't from a trusted publisher for example, when you download a new screen saver, toolbar, or other software from an untrustworthy source , it might include malware that logs your keystrokes or searches your PC for saved passwords.

Attacking Internet sites — If hackers break into an Internet site and steal account information, they can check it against other sites to see if you've re-used your password. Phishing — Hackers often send emails or text messages that appear to come from an official source to trick people into sending their account data.

You can check your sign-in location information by going to your your Microsoft account's security options and selecting Review activity. Tip: Outlook. Creating alternate addresses to use on websites or apps that force you to register can help keep your personal email address out of the hands of marketers and hackers.

Read more about how to add or remove an email alias in Outlook. If your Outlook. Important: When you close your Microsoft account, your email and contacts are deleted from our servers and can't be recovered, and you won't be able to access Microsoft services like Xbox, Skype, and OneDrive using that account.

If you're sure you want to close your account, read how to close your Outlook. You can also get support from other Outlook. Note: You will need to sign in first to get support. If you can't sign in, go to Account support. My Outlook. Need more help?

Expand your skills. Get new features first. Was this information helpful? Yes No. Not only that I look for the best help, not only a page saying you need to talk to a friend and family. NO I would like to become a specialist in helping people as well. If somebody is using the internet to damage your references is a very bad situation and has to be stopped with all possibilities. I hope you can give me some idea. Where I can start to find out if somebody publish something bad, like a messenger alert about your personal name, where i can find organisations to joy and create a helping center to eliminate entries.

Thank you in advance Joe. Joe, Unfortunately it is very difficult to get things removed from the internet. Many sites are reputable and can be contacted. Curious about exporting the contact list once you suspect that the email account has been compromised… is this safe to export to an excel file or to a different email account service if one chooses to change?

I do not know if it is a hijack. But, Sometimes i when i send emails, in certain periods i get no replies whatsoever. And these contacts have often replied to mails before. Even those with a long or many — lines message. You have probably heard of internet — bullying. Is it feasible that some…have made a like a copy of my hotmail and intercepts outgoing messages just for the hell sorry of it or to make me feel unease and paranoid.

Just a theory. Yesterday morning, of around 12 emails received, suddenly all but three disappeared. An automatic response to one sat bewildered in the Outbox. Later, another two disappeared. This morning gave a repeat performance. Malwarebytes found 7 PUPs on my computer, two as files and the rest as registry keys, which have been smartly removed. Can I connect these with the missing emails in that spyware may have been responsible?

Why would a hacker take only a sampling of the emails instead of taking them all? How do you access your mail? Web interface? Email program? Which email program? I have Verizon Yahoo. As I was working with them, some were viewable on my Android tablet but not on my computer. Then most of the 40 emails were viewable on my tablet, but were in the Trash folder.

Moving them resulted in an empty trash folder and 30 of them disappearing entirely. VY has a message up that they are converting their email to SSL. A facebook account has hacked by anyone and he Hacker has changed the password when i want to log in then it shows password is incorrect and then when i click on forget password then facebook send me confirmation code on my mobile no but my mobile has also stolen by anyone and i failed to enter confirmation code how can i login or blocking to facebook account please help!!!!!!

What you need to do NOW. Amazing coincidence! I found out this morning my e-mail hacked, and when I went back for the support phone number, I see in my inbox this post!

Needless to say, I took proper steps, including a thorough scan of the computer. Now I am noodling this as well. Hi Leo, I am shahmir from Pakistan. This was a great article. I just got hacked on Aug. I live in the US. Thanks to your recommendation I just changed my alternate email. Yahoo also has secondary security that I made sure I had and changed tonight. Thank God the hacker forgot to delete the trash.

I just took all the steps that you recommended above. Thanks again. If you know the email and password as you say you do, then just login normally, and go update your security info.

Two days ago my partner said that he received an email saying it was from me and came up in my married name. The email contained a photo of me from when I had a photo shoot so he looked at it on his mobile phone email account and replied to it. He had an email flick back saying that it the mail was undeliverable as the account was no longer in use and the email address listed was one which I had with virgin media many years ago when I was living with my ex husband and even before I knew my partner.

The answer to all your questions is that the person who sent the email is a spammer and is very good at data-mining. They linked together all the elements and managed to send out something that really looked like it was from you. The only solution, is to click delete and move on with your life. Though it would be a good idea to check all your current important accounts and make sure you have not had a breach.

When I found that the live mail had been hacked, I reported the problem. But since then there are still problems that are unresolved. So I sent a written request for help. No reply. This can be a minor pain, but this extra simple step can save a LOT of grief. Ask me how I know. Taking backups of your address book on a regular basis — I do it once a month — is not enough.

You must test importing the address book to verify the backup and restore process actually works. Lots of folks ignore this step. After all, a backup which cannot be used to restore your account is no backup at all. At work other people have email accounts with yahoo and I do not want them to know that I access my emails from the office in an emergency like when I need to print docs from my email.

Your bosses at work have the ability to access to every web page you visit on their computers. They can see the contents the contents of every email you view. In fact, if they choose, they can record every keystroke you type.

On January 1st this year someone hacked into my email account and set up 2 step verification on it. Since then I have had numerous email conversations with microsoft support and they know that some one hacked my account and changed things. Now the thing that is very hard for me to accept is that they say they have no control of who gets into or uses the account,but surely they as programme writers have the power to change this or does it mean that no one is safe and there programme is virtually worthless.

I have lost a lot of important emails and contacts through no fault of my own but they do not appear to be the least bit bothered about it. I have tried to get them to send me contact details of someone so I can take this further but its like banging your head against a wall they just do not appear to want to help.

They know my account was hacked so surely they must have the IP address of the hacker and be able to restore my account.

It may help to think about the various people involved in this whole scenario. Yes, Microsoft has lots of great programmers who could make changes to the code. Any good company will not allow their customer service crew to have access to sensitive information.

At the most they will be able to see the last 4 digits and the expiration date. Also there is no reason for the tech support person to lie about what kind of access they may have for recovering your account.

Hope that helps. My father got a call from his friends saying that he has forwarded some email to them when he actually hasnt. Is there any further risk for my father? This can be done very easily by anyone who knows your email address and the addresses in his address book. The can easily fake his address in the From: field. I have been recently hacked and immediately changed my password and activated a 2-step verification option when logging on from different devices and locations, but still have the concern that copies of my emails are being sent to the hacker.

Many thanks. It is possible, but it would be via an option in your email accounts settings and options that you should verify as not having been set. Hi Leo. How is this possible? Any suggestions? If you are able to log on to your Gmail account, in addition to the 7 things described in this article, I would check to see if that account is set up to forward email to another account and change that if applicable.

I have a question regarding mail sent on myspace. Example, me responding to a message. It could be that the other person lives in a different timezone, or has the time set incorrectly on their computer, or simply a glitch in how MySpace handles their messages. I accidentally stumbled across this site. Plus we work at a place that takes cc over the phone and he has my in-laws Unlimited card number though somehow crossing all of our text messages.

Actually Microsoft was very helpful for free , deleted all contacts, copied all fake url or IP information , backed up everything onto PC then memory stick, and much more. So, my husband and I learned this time. However not lazy enough to go through all this bullshit for free money. Thank you for this site and being invisible to my hacker. I really wish I could be as low as him and hack into his stuff making him more broke to our knowledge than he already is.

I will definitely be back to keep up dates for my phones, etc. Please listen to Leo. No joke. Again thank you for more information. We are eternally grateful. While I can understand the sentiment, email has connected me with more people more closely than anything else so far. Email made it all easier.

Email made it all more likely to happen. Email made all this real connection possible. In reality. I could agree more. Email, Facebook, LinkedIn, Skype, etc. Being able to FaceTime with my sister and her family in New Zealand and seeing photos of my nephews on Facebook is simply awesome. All my contact lists have a fictitious entry that has my email address from another account. If it gets a message, I find out immediately.

That tells me I need to get busy and start with the hard work on the hit account. Thanks so much for the kick in the rear regarding hacking of email accounts. I realized how vulnerable I am and how important my email and contacts are so I have now switched to two step verification on Outlook.

By the way my Outlook. I notice that the article recommends using long passwords, which is sensible enough. People are generally advised to use increasingly long complicated passwords. This will not help if the password has been found out by some means.

So increased length is meant to make it harder to guess passwords by using brute force i. The reason why passwords are having to increase in length is because computers are increasingly faster at processing permutations and techniques are improving the permutational chances.

But an 8 random character password would be as effective as a 28 character password if login attempts were limited even to For example, the reason why a 4 number credit card pin is regarded as satisfactorily safe is because you only get 3 goes at entering it. So, why are unlimited guesses for email accounts still permitted? Two-step verification provides some additional protection too.

If a password is found on one account, hackers may well try them on other accounts. Additionally, if you use Outlook. Easiest way for hackers to get email lists is through mobile apps. Check permissions on some ad ware apps you may have installed on your phone or tablet.

Some will have access to your email and contacts. This information can then be used to hijack an email account and send emails from your address to people in your contact list. There is very little you can do once this has happened. People install apps without checking permissions they are giving up on their phone and this is why email hacking is on the rise, its not due to passwords in the majority of cases its someone using your email account to fake emails from.

Ok, this morning my sister sent me a email saying I got hacked. But it looked at the email address that was supposted to be from me and it said my email name but the was not my email server. Was I hacked? Or my sister was hacked?? I am sending spam to just one person in my contact list and i have talked to others in my contact list and no one has gotten anything. This person got spam for about 4 months while no other contacts did.

I am good friend with this person reciving spam on social media. The year was back then My friend stoped reciving spam afterwards. The actions i did then: I checked as you said recent activity in both hotmail and gmail and nothing. I looked in send folder and nothing. My Facebook has never been hacked because of full register i know and other social media.

You say a typical hack is when your contacts gets spam, in this case it was only a contact. Is it more likley to be something else? All my friends says i should know for sure when it is a hack because either they get closed accounts or they get respons from MSN friends or other friends or find in sent email.

Or because their connected facebook got some posted new things or they started to write to stangers or something. I have read about spoofing but is that even likley who even put their energy to stalk others and then send them email to fool. Or has someone gotten our emails between and somehow connected us…however the teory should i worry???

I have a question like above and i would appreciate an answer. If only one person got spam and no others from the contact list. That means probably that they do NOT have access to the adressbook right? Any spammer should be interested in spaming as much people as possible??? I would like to hear your expert opinion pleaseee. To be clear: there are no rules, and no predicting what spammers will do. So the answer could be just about anything. Keep your passwords on four identical flash drives since flash drives have been known to fail.

Make sure to keep them identical. Eventually some hackers are going to break Truecrypt so either use Veracrypt or, since Microsoft knows everything you do anyway, you can also use Bitlocker. I have been either hacked or bullied.

Most all of My email addresses have been accessed. Also moving through web forums trying to get answers I come across The same name and or names. Is it possible that someone or my ISP is leading me to the right person or persons or is it just a FReak coincidence? This morning I signed into my personal email account and I saw new emails from various email newsletters and websites. I did not sign up for any of these and so I proceeded to label all of these as spam.

I was thinking it was maybe a spam bot but I how do I confirm? That depends. Some give you time to change your mind. The best thing you could do is follow the instructions in this article before closing it down as an extra layer of protection. Depends on the provider, how you deleted it, what it means to delete an account from that provider and so on. This article is very helpful and I will reread it.

However, I would prefer to hire a service to help me. Is there any such service that you could recommend? Also, my email was hacked and I had to abandon it. However, would that have allowed someone to hack into my computer, as well? Sorry —The email address that I gave is the hacked one. I have not yet been able to set up a new one. While I am setting up a new email, I will be locked out. It has happened several times. A hack to a Yahoo. You say this has happened several times, so it sounds like what you really need is to learn how to be safe on the internet.