Windows 10: When recovering an account, i choose an Email that is already used for a separate windows...

My account was hacked and so after several unhelpful convos with the live chat support over 4 monthsthis ticket was closed with no email follow up? i tried the recovery tool to change the email of the account, but i wasn't thinking and set it to the email account which i setup while working with the live chat support in the first place,its is a Gmail email, but it is tied to a windows account since the email is in effect the account name, what will happen when the recovery is finalized? and there are two accounts with the same email. this is a process where it takes 1 month giving you ti

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Unauthorized Emails from my account?

It is more than likely that your email account was hacked, either by a virus sniffing your password, or just simply hacked.

Either way, change your password on your email account. Unfortunately the damage by already be done. They already have your contact list and your email address associated with that contact list. There is nothing stopping them from sending out emails using their own SMTP servers to everyone on your contact list and claiming the emails are from your email address. They don't actually have to have access to your yahoo account or even any yahoo server to send emails to people that come from your address.

 

email account hacked. please help

Then I suggest you use it.

 

email account hacked. please help

Also may I suggest you change email accounts to one of the following.....

Gmail
Outlook

The reason is they both use "Step two verification". This style of verification means even if a hacker gets your password they cannot log in to your account. You see every time someone try's to log in that hasn't been verified you will get a text or a phone call giving you a final code to log in. Its very easy and simple to setup also. The great thing is once you setup your Email application with a specific "application password" from that account you never have to log in again AND your account is protected from being logged in from foreign entities.

I like the new outlook personally however Gmail is also damn good. Gmail also has an IP tracker that allows you to see WHERE the account has been logged in from. Anyway let us know if you wanna change over and have any questions. We will be happy to help and welcome to TPU!