Hacked Accounts
Secure Your Accounts
Make sure only you can get into your email and other important accounts. This Guide shows how to turn on two-step sign-in, check your recovery details, remove sign-ins and apps you don't recognize, and keep strong passwords.
Is this Guide for you?
You want to protect your email and other important accounts before something goes wrong, or you're not sure how well they're protected. Start with your email account, because it's the one you'd use to get back into many of your other accounts.
This Guide helps you
- Turn on two-step sign-in
- Check your recovery phone number and email address
- Sign out devices and remove apps you don't recognize
- Keep strong passwords in a password manager
You'll answer up to 4 short questions. Then you'll get a plan with the steps in order. Your answers stay in this browser tab. They aren't saved, and they aren't sent to Defend.
Based on guidance from Google, Federal Trade Commission, Microsoft, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and Apple. Sources last checked October 8, 2026.