Have I Been Hacked?
No matter how secure you are, sooner or later you may have an accident and become hacked. Below are clues you might have been hacked and if so, what to do.
Your Online Accounts
Family or friends say they are receiving unusual messages or invites from you that you know you did not send.
Your password to an account no longer works, even though you know the password is correct.
You receive notifications from websites that someone has logged into your account when you know you did not log in yourself. Do not click on any links in such notifications to check your account; instead, type the website address yourself into your browser, use your previously saved bookmark, or access your account from a mobile app.
Your Computer or Mobile Device
Your antivirus program generates an alert that your system is infected. Make sure it is your antivirus software generating the alert and not a random pop-up window from a website trying to fool you into calling a number or installing something else. Not sure? Open and check your antivirus program to confirm if your computer is truly infected.
You get a pop-up window saying your computer has been encrypted and you have to pay a ransom to get your files back.
Applications seem to be crashing randomly or are loading very slowly.
While browsing the web, you are often redirected to pages you did not want to visit or new, unwanted pages appear.
Financial
There are suspicious or unknown charges to your credit card or bank account that you know you did not make.
Now What? - How to Take Back Control
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