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 ...

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.

It’s been quite a while since I’ve received an apologetic email from a contact saying their account had been hacked and a recent email most definitely sent to me wasn’t from them. But this still ...

Google is planning to delete inactive Google accounts, which includes Gmail, Photos and Drive services, this week. Ahead of the deadline there appears to be a bit of a scramble by users to get back ...

Getting locked out of your email is no fun. To start, maybe you forgot your username or password, and now you have to go through all the security verification steps to reset it. Or perhaps you thought ...

When a Gmail account is hijacked, the damage rarely stops at email. A single compromise can expose banking resets, cloud backups, and identity documents, so the priority is to regain control quickly ...

Wait… what’s my password again? Uh oh… You’ve uttered these words before when trying to log in to an account. It happens to all of us. However, when this ...

There's now a way to get back into your Google account if you lose your password and don't have your own recovery email. Michelle is Lifehacker's Associate Tech Editor, and has been reviewing games, ...

The Get Help app allows you to recover your Microsoft account, even if you do not have any account recovery options. Click on Windows 11 Search and type Get Help. Select the Get Help app from the ...

In this post, we will show you how to add a recovery email address to Gmail. Gmail is a free email service by Google with more than a billion users worldwide. Users can access Gmail via a web browser ...