If you notice unusual or unfamiliar activities on your Google account, Gmail or any other Google product, and it is denying you the access to login, then there’s someone somewhere using your account without your permission meaning the person has hacked your account. But I have the solution for you.
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So in this article, I will tell you what to do if your Google account, Gmail, or any product by Google was hacked. Just keep reading on.
Signs To Show That Your Google Account Has Been Hacked.
If you notice any of the following signs, your Google account or Gmail has been hacked.
- If you noticed unfamiliar changes to your security settings.
- If you noticed unauthorized financial activites.
- And if you noticed usual notifications.
Signs To Show That Your Blog Was Hacked.
Your blog might have been hacked if:
- Your blog disappears or was blocked.
- Post you did not publish appears on you blog.
- You get a comment on a post you did not publish.
- Your mail to your blogger address has been changed, but you did not change it.
Signs To Show That Your Google Ads Has Been Hacked.
If you notice any of these unfamiliar activities, your Google Ads might have been hacked.
- Increase in your ad spend.
- Changes on account user, manager or owner.
- Ads that point to unknown links or destinations.
Signs To Show That Your YouTube Channel Has Been Hacked.
Your YouTube channel might have been hacked, if:
- Your channel has a video you did not upload.
- You discovered a comment you did not make.
- Or noticed unfamiliar changes in your;
- Email address.
- Channel name.
- Sent messages.
- Description.
- Profile picture, etc.
Signs To Show That Your Gmail Has Been Hacked.
If you noticed any of these unfamiliar activities in your mails, then it might have been hacked.
- You found sent mail that you did not send.
- Your user name was changed.
- If people say they got usual emails from you, but you did not send.
- If your emails were deleted, but you did not see them in trash.
- You no longer receive email.
Products By Google.
Google has so may products, but here are some.
- YouTube, YouTube Music, YouTube Kids, etc.
- Google Workspace.
- Google PlayStore.
- Google Files.
- Google Drive.
- Chrome.
- Docs.
- Google Chat.
- GBoard.
- Android.
- Android TV.
- Adsense.
- Analytics, etc.
What To Do If Your Google Account Was Hacked.
If you think your Google account was hacked, follow these easy steps to recover it.
- Sign In To Your Google Account: If you can’t sign in, go to the account recovery page and answer as many questions as you can. To make sure you’re signing in to the right account, try to recover your username.
- Use the account recovery if you can’t sign in.
- Someone deleted your account.
- Someone changed your account information.
- Review Activities And Help Secure Your Hacked Account: Review your account activities
- Go to your Google account.
- On the left panel, select security.
- On the recent security events, select review security events.
- And then you can check for suspicious activities.
- If you found an activity that did not come from you, select, no it isn’t me. And after that, check which device use your account.
- Take More Security Steps: Take more security steps, to secure your account from being hacked again.
- Turn on 2- step verification.
- Install a more secure browser example, Google Chrome.
- Help secure your password with password alert.
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