How To Detect If Your Account Has Been Hacked

Nowadays most people have extremely confidential documents emails, pictures, links and private stuff in their email account. The very thought of someone else being able to access your email account and go through your private stuff can be quickly scary. Have you ever been in a situation where you fell that someone else knows things about you that were not mentioned anywhere other than in your email account? Do you suspect that your email account has been hacked and someone is spying upon you? If you are in any of these inconvenient situations, or are just obsessive about maintaining the privacy and security of your email account, then this is the tip for you.

1.Gmail- In Gmail, there is a Last Account Activity feature that allows you to get information about when, how and from where your account was accessed in the last few sessions. This information can be very useful to figure out if someone has been illegally accessing your account. To get the last account activity details, log in to your Gmail account, scroll to the bottom and click on the Details link below where it says Last Account Activity.

This will open up the entire log-in history of your Gmail account up to the ten most recent log-in sessions. Not only does it tell you the exact date and time when your account was accessed, it also reveals the location of the IP address from where it was accessed and from what kind of a device it was accessed. By analyzing this log-in history, you can find out about any illegitimate log-in to your account in the last few sessions.

2. Facebook- Facebook allows you to view a history of all logged-in sessions to your account by clicking on Settings> Account Settings> Security> Active Sessions. If you notice any active sessions taht you did not start, you click on the End Activity link to remotely log out from it. It is recommended that you enable Login Notifications on your Facebook account, so that you receive an email and an SMS text message each time someone logs in to your account from a device that you have not used before. To enable Login Notifications on your account, simply go to Settings> Account Settings> Security> Login Notifications and enable them.