We all know that e-mail has become a part of an individual in this modern world of science and technology. Nowadays E-mails are not only used for reading and sharing messages but is been widely used to store our personal and confidential informations like our credit card details, bank logins and many other sensitive data’s. It can be a real nightmare if someone hacks and takes control of your email accounts. The greatest trouble is when you don’t know how to recover your email account. So this post will surely be helpful for internet users whose account has been compromised. This post will help you in recovering your hacked email accounts.

FOR GMAIL:

As you all know that your Gmail account is associated with many services like Analytics, Adwords, Blogger, Adsense, Orkut ,etc so it can be a big loss for you if you are not able to access your Gmail account.As losing access to your Gmail account means losing access to all the services associated it with too. Here is a possible list of recovery methods which you can adopt to recover your lost account.

Step -1: The most easiest way to get your account back in action is by resetting your password gmail password. In this process Google may ask you to answer the secret question or may send the password reset details to the secondary email address associated with your compromised account. You can reset you password from the following link.

Gmail Password Reset Link

If you cannot find success in your step 1 then you proceed to step 2.

Step-2: Most of the time the hacker will change your secret question and secondary email address right after the account is compromised that is the reason for the Password Reset process to fail. If this is the case then you need to contact the Gmail support team by filling out the account recovery form. This form will ask you to fill out several questions like

1. Your most recent recovery email address.
2. Email addresses of up to five frequently emailed contacts.
3. Names of any 4 Labels or folders that you may have created in your account.
4. List of other services associated with your compromised account such as orkut, analytics,blogger, etc.
5. Your account creation date & your last successful login date.
6. Last password that you remember.

You have to fill out these form as much accurately as possible. It is obvious to forget the dates of last login, account creation and similar terms. However you need to figure out the closest possible date/answers and fill out this form as this is your last chance to recover your account. The more accurate the information filled out in the recovery form, the more the chances of getting your account back. You may reach the account recovery page form the following link

Account Recovery Form Link

If the above link doesn’t work try this link for account recovery support page and select “I cannot sign in” then click on “account recovery form”.

FOR YAHOO AND HOTMAIL:

Unfortunately for Yahoo/Hotmail there is no second option like filling out the form or contacting the support team. All you need to do is either answer the secret questions that you have setup or reset the password using the secondary email option.

Yahoo password recovery page

Hotmail Password recovery page

To start the password reset process just click on the “Forgot password” link in the login page of yahoo or hotmail (whichever you need to recover) and proceed as per the screen instructions.