You can hear a lot of complains coming from someone whose email account has been hacked. It’s okay to get hacked as long as there were no problems created. However, this is only seldom. People who hack emails plan this to harm the other party and they usually send worms and viruses to the contacts in a particular email. If you don’t want t to experience this, here are some tips to protect your personal account.
You usually use your emails to send applications when looking for work. You also use email when you send inquiry about a particular product or similar inquiries. However, you should be careful where you send your emails. Make sure that the address you are sending is valid and not a phishing email. For example, you might send your email to a hacker and will list your email as one of the emails to hack.
Change your password to more complicated ones. Your password should contain words and numbers at the same time. When you sign up for an email address, they usually specify specific number of characters for your password. Don’t use common passwords like 1234, qwerty and abcd as your password because hackers can easily guess this. Change your password regularly too so hackers won’t be able to guess it.
Lastly, don’t leave your emails open when accessing it in internet cafes. Before you leave make sure you sign out, and close the window properly. When you leave your email open, you are open prone to hacker attacks.