The first sign that something’s wrong is almost always the same. Friends and business contacts complain that they’re receiving mail with advertisements from you. Dozens of notifications from mailer ...

Recovering your Microsoft account password is easy. However, things can be challenging if you have forgotten your email address or username. You only have limited ways to find out your email address ...

Gmail users told they have 7 days to respond to password hack attacks. Update, May 3, 2025: This story, originally published May 1, has been updated with a new report regarding the use of passkeys in ...

You may have seen warnings that Google is telling all of its users to change their Gmail passwords due to a breach. That’s only partly true. Google is telling users ...

Gmail users around the world are being urged to take immediate action after a massive data breach exposed more than 183 million email passwords, according to cybersecurity experts who revealed the ...

Thankfully, passkeys are growing in popularity and have a real chance to replace them completely, eliminating the need for ...

While it's not as large in scale as the latest data breach that leaked over 16 billion passwords, another incident has exposed passwords and other sensitive information across some of the most popular ...

Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, used the same easily cracked password for different online accounts over a period of years, according to leaked records reviewed by WIRED.

Katherine Haan, MBA, is a Senior Staff Writer for Forbes Advisor and a former financial advisor turned international bestselling author and business coach. For more than a decade, she’s helped small ...