How to Restore a Hacked Gmail Account
How to Restore a Hacked Gmail Account - You may have experienced how annoying your Gmail account is being hacked or hacked by someone else. Indeed, crime in the technological age does not only occur in the real world. Hacking is a form of crime in cyberspace that is very detrimental to the account owner. Maybe email hacking looks trivial to some people. However, not with some other people. For you businessmen or other professions who often rely on Gmail email in your various activities, Gmail hacking is a big problem for you.
So what are the signs that your Gmail account has been hacked? One of the indications that your Gmail account has been hacked appears when you type in your email and password to enter your account, but you find something like "Your password was changed 3 days ago". Even though it's clear you never did. Yes, some of you might get confused when you experience that, however, you can ask prof, google for help to ask for the hacked account back into your hands. The following is step by step how to restore a hacked Gmail account.
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How to Recover a Hacked Gmail Account
- You just open your email at gmail.com. As usual, enter your email name and password. If your account has been hacked, you will see red writing under the password. You don't need to worry, you just click "don't change password". Doing so will automatically lead you to the help of the password section. If you are unable to access the verification code, it means that the number you used for email verification has been changed by hackers.
- Then your next step is to simply skip this section and click "I can't access my phone"
- If the phone verification fails, you can still do another option by verifying the recovery email. If unfortunately the recovery email has also been hijacked, you can still do other options.
- What you need to do next? You still have the opportunity to click on the blue text "verify your identity". This way the questions will automatically shift to personal questions. It's time for you to continue your business by filling in the various personal questions asked. There will be two columns presented, in the first column you type the recovery email address, as well as in the second column you copy the recovery email address again.
- Then you tap "continue".
- It's quite complicated, because this is a very important personal account. If the recovery account that you entered is valid, a graph will appear indicating the progress of the account recovery process. On this page your task is to remember the last time you logged in to Gmail, which requires even more memory. You also have to fill in when the Gmail email was created. This question is the most terrible, very few people who still remember when the email account was created. Therefore, just in case, you may document the creation of your Gmail account. after you enter the various things requested you tap "continue"
- If you manage to answer the questions above, it will appear successful. You click “reset password” to change your email password.
- Type in your new password.
- The word "success" will appear. It means that you have successfully made changes to your password, even at this stage you can find out the password that the hacker created.
That's how to restore a hacked Gmail account. So you can do the above efforts for those of you who are unlucky because it's important that your Gmail account gets hacked.