Recovering your Microsoft account password is easy. However, things can be challenging if you have forgotten your email address or username. You only have limited ways to find out your email address ...

There's a good chance that hackers know at least one of your passwords. Last year, Yahoo announced that hackers managed to steal three billion — yes, billion — email addresses and passwords that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kate O’Flaherty is a cybersecurity and privacy journalist. Yesterday, it emerged that more than a billion unique email address and ...

No doubt you’ve Googled yourself at least once to see what comes up (or to see what embarrassing photos and blog posts you need to purge from the web before your boss finds them). While doing a search ...

Sigh. A new day, a new data breach. Facebook and LinkedIn (which says the latest incident was a “scrape,” not a “breach”) are just two of dozens of recent examples of our precious passwords falling ...

Imagine chilling on your couch, lost between doomscrolling and notifications from your friends. There aren't many things that can spoil your mood. However, you open Gmail on your Android phone and see ...

You're checking your inbox or scrolling through your phone when something catches your attention. It's a message about a password reset, but you never asked for one ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Davey Winder is a veteran cybersecurity writer, hacker and analyst. This article is more than 4 years old. Have you got a ...