One morning in April, my Yahoo email account was disabled for no apparent reason. As a freelancer, my email account is my professional lifeline. But it wasn't just the security threat or potential for ...

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 ...

Update, Dec. 16, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 14 now includes additional advice on how to securely recover a forgotten username and password to an inactive Gmail account to prevent ...

Removing an email account does not delete it forever. It's still accessible from other devices. Alternative options include disabling the account or hiding new email alerts. This article explains how ...

There are plenty of good reasons why you might want to change your email account. You want or need to change email providers, you hate your current email address, or you’ve become inundated with spam.

The first sign that something’s wrong is almost always the same. Friends and business contacts complain that they’re receiving mail with advertisements from you. Dozens of notifications from mailer ...

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 ...

There isn’t a centralized option present in any of the apps that would just help you log your Email address out of all the devices synced in with it. To remove an existing Gmail account from being ...

There are a variety of reasons why you could be locked out of your Facebook account. Such reasons can range from the mundane (forgetting your password) to the worst case scenario (being hacked or ...

A recent data theft at PayPal caused a huge stir when a hacker was found wanting to sell access data to around 15.8 million accounts online—including user passwords in plain text. This type of data ...