Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Email accounts are a particularly popular target for hackers. Emails often contain a treasure trove of valuable data, up to and ...

Update, Dec. 07, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 05, has been updated with examples of the kind of cyber-attacks used by hackers and scammers to lock you out of your Gmail account. A Dec.

Changing your Gmail address can be confusing because Google treats your email address as your account identity. Unlike ...

Most of us have had our Facebook accounts for so long that we may not even know what email address we used to sign up, or if we do know the address, we may no longer have access to it. For example, if ...

With these free online tools, you can immediately check whether your email address has been leaked on the internet and is associated with stolen data. One of the two tools, haveibeenpwned, has just ...

Under the shift, which Google said would eventually be rolled out to all users, old addresses would remain active. Messages ...

It's common to forget passwords, especially for apps and accounts where you aren't required to put up your passwords daily, like Instagram or X or even your Apple ...