FixableProtecting your accounts
Account takeover
Someone gets into your account and shuts you out.
Understand it
The end point of stolen passwords, codes or sessions: an attacker holds your email, social or banking account, changes the recovery details, and reaches everything attached to it.
How to spot it
Failed logins, altered recovery email or phone, messages you did not send, access that has vanished.
Close the gap
- Protect your email account above all - it unlocks the rest.
- Turn on two-step sign-in and keep recovery codes safe and offline.
- Act quickly: reset the password, revoke sessions, check recovery settings.
- Keep a second route to each provider’s support.
What to do about it
This is part of your plan - Turn on two-step sign-in where it matters. Work through it there and you’ll close this off along with everything else it covers.