The article discusses the growing importance of email accounts in managing various online services. It provides essential steps to recover a compromised email account, emphasizing the need to act quickly. Recommendations include using familiar devices for recovery, answering security questions accurately, and establishing strong passwords. The piece advises on utilizing password managers and implementing two-step verification for added security. It also suggests creating a new email account as a backup if recovery attempts fail and highlights the importance of maintaining unique, complex passwords.
Email accounts have become more than a longstanding method of communication, morphing into the centre of your digital world as the user login for hundreds of services from shopping to socials.
Quickly taking these steps can help get you back into your email and safeguard the many other accounts linked to it.
Use a password manager to help you remember it and other important details.
Set up two-step verification using a code-generating app, rather than SMS text messages.
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