What a Hacker Can Do Once You Know Your Email





When the hacker knows your email address, he or she has the most important part of your confidential information and has cut off halfway to hacking the email, and all he needs now is the password.

Hackers use different ways to do this, the most common being phishing emails or guessing if a password is common or familiar.

This is designing email for a well-known website like Amazon, eBay, and Paypal, to trick you and ask you to log in to do something.

Once people log on to this fake website, the hacker immediately receives the credentials and password of the victim's real account.

Among other methods, you may receive an email stating that your email has been compromised, so you need to change the password for security reasons, and as soon as you click on a fraudulent link it turns you into a fake page and changes your password, so that the hacker can capture it.

Once the hackers get your password, the Ali Baba Cave opens up to them and the things they can do become much greater, including:

1- Accessing your electronic accounts:
Many people tend to use the same password to access their online accounts, which enables the hacker to access many other accounts effortlessly.

However, even if you use different passwords, the hacker can click on the "Forgot Password" box for your accounts to resend the password or set a new password.

2- Viewing your data:
The things hackers can do are connected and are considered chain reactions. Once a hacker accesses your online accounts, you can imagine how much information he will be able to collect.

The last thing is that the hacker will use your email address to view your Facebook account and know your friend's list and some of your photos.

If that is not enough, if the hacker puts your email address on LinkedIn and searches for you, he will know where you work, your job, your colleagues, and the places where you studied before.

This information is sufficient for the intruder to start chasing you in the real world, not to mention the possibility of obtaining other information from Instagram and Twitter.

3- Theft of your financial data:
Big problems will start to appear as soon as the hackers get your credit card or bank card data, so you have certainly sent this data by e-mail at some point.

Generally, this makes your online bank accounts a prime target for hackers, especially if you use your email address to log in to them.

Funds are at risk once your email is compromised, as it will be easy to reset the bank account and start issuing transactions. Hackers can open bank accounts in your name and obtain loans, as well as corrupt your credit card classification. Hackers can use your personal information to harm you and destroy your reputation and threat.

4- Blackmailing you:
If all of these things are not frightening enough, hackers can use your personal information to harm you and destroy your reputation and threat, especially if the user finds something that he can use against you because you do not wish to trade in public.

Hackers can spy on you and review most of your emails, information that can be used to easily blackmail you.

5- Impersonation of your identity:
Impersonation of someone is considered the worst scenario ever, especially since the hacker has got all of your private and personally identifiable information for himself. And since e-mail can contain credit card information, identity theft can be within reach for hackers.

How can you stay safe from hackers?
In this context, you should avoid using your primary email address to log in to other sites. You can create a second email to use a passcode, and ensure that your password is strong and difficult to guess. Moreover, you should change passwords every term for added security.

It is also recommended to secure your email account through two-factor authentication. On the other hand, do not share information or write your email password on public Wi-Fi networks, and be smart about the information you share via email.

What to do if you think you have been hacked?
If there are random e-mails sent from your mail, you must change your password immediately, and notify your contacts so that they ignore what may come from your mail.

It is also advisable to change the privacy settings of e-mail to the maximum degree of security and scan the computer or phone for malware and viruses.