The plague of spam can affect your email address by hijacking your account, so if when you connect you detect something strange or find that it does not work as usual, try logging in again and changing your password. It may be a somewhat tedious process, but security experts recommend changing our security keys from time to time and not perpetuating them over time, since hacking the account will then be much easier.
If instead your account has been directly hijacked, contact your email service provider.
However, to avoid the theft of personal accounts, the following steps can also be carried out:
When we create an email account, the service that provides it to us usually proposes a series of questions, with an easy-to-remember answer in the event of having forgotten the password, such as who is your best childhood friend or what is your pet’s name. If you are not sure if you have this functionality activated, check it in the security section of your account.
On the other hand, if a message arrives in your inbox that requires your password, even if it seems to be official, never provide it, since email services such as Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo never ask their users that provide the password in a message.
Also, if you use public computers in cyber cafes or libraries, remember to always erase your data or access in incognito mode, incorporated in browsers such as Google Chrome. However, email service providers also make mistakes, for example, in 2009 Hotmail generated a security error putting thousands of user passwords at risk.
