Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
⚛️ Getting hacked once is bad enough, but getting hacked repeatedly, or losing your account forever, is preventable. I'll cover 12 practical steps cover passwords, two-factor authentication, recovery options, and the skeptical habits that keep hackers out. Set them up *before* you need them, and you'll never have to start over.
⚛️ Preventing account hacks
To secure your account from hacking:
- Select a good password ▶ askleo.com/132876
- Protect your password ▶ askleo.com/27036
- How to Choose Good Security Questions ▶ askleo.com/4624
- Set (and maintain!) an alternate email address(es) ▶ askleo.com/149957
- Set (and maintain!) mobile or other telephone number(s) ▶ askleo.com/15584
- Enable two-factor authentication ▶ askleo.com/16401
- Use other provider-specific techniques when available ▶ askleo.com/16142
- Use a different password on every site ▶ askleo.com/4931
- Use a password vault ▶ askleo.com/5555
- Be skeptical ▶ askleo.com/16491
- Remember that free services have little to no support ▶ askleo.com/2217
- Learn from your mistakes if it ever happens to you
Updates, related links, and more discussion: askleo.com/2641
🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: go.askleo.com/ytsub
✅ Watch next ▶ Please Set Up and Maintain Account Recovery Information ▶ youtu.be/zdaaB_aJLAQ
Chapters
0:00 12 Steps to Keep from Getting Your Account Hacked
O:57 1. Select a good password
2:42 2. Protect your password
3:30 3. Set and protect your secret answers
4:30 4. Set (and maintain!) alternate email address(es)
5:37 5. Set (and maintain!) mobile or other telephone number(s)
6:55 6. Enable two-factor authentication
7:48 7. Other provider-specific techniques
8:21 8: Use a different password on every site
9:10 9: Use a password manager
10:23 10. Be skeptical
11:41 11 Remember that free services have little to no support
12:35 12. Do this: Learn from your mistakes
❤️ My best articles: go.askleo.com/best
❤️ My Most Important Article: go.askleo.com/number1
More Ask Leo!
☑️ askleo.com to get your questions answered
☑️ newsletter.askleo.com to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter.
☑️ askleo.com/patron to help support Ask Leo!
☑️ askleo.com/all-the-different-ways-to-get-ask-leo for even more!
#askleo #hacked #account
⚛️ Getting hacked once is bad enough, but getting hacked repeatedly, or losing your account forever, is preventable. I'll cover 12 practical steps cover passwords, two-factor authentication, recovery options, and the skeptical habits that keep hackers out. Set them up *before* you need them, and you'll never have to start over.
⚛️ Preventing account hacks
To secure your account from hacking:
- Select a good password ▶ askleo.com/132876
- Protect your password ▶ askleo.com/27036
- How to Choose Good Security Questions ▶ askleo.com/4624
- Set (and maintain!) an alternate email address(es) ▶ askleo.com/149957
- Set (and maintain!) mobile or other telephone number(s) ▶ askleo.com/15584
- Enable two-factor authentication ▶ askleo.com/16401
- Use other provider-specific techniques when available ▶ askleo.com/16142
- Use a different password on every site ▶ askleo.com/4931
- Use a password vault ▶ askleo.com/5555
- Be skeptical ▶ askleo.com/16491
- Remember that free services have little to no support ▶ askleo.com/2217
- Learn from your mistakes if it ever happens to you
Updates, related links, and more discussion: askleo.com/2641
🔔 Subscribe to the Ask Leo! YouTube channel for more tech videos & answers: go.askleo.com/ytsub
✅ Watch next ▶ Please Set Up and Maintain Account Recovery Information ▶ youtu.be/zdaaB_aJLAQ
Chapters
0:00 12 Steps to Keep from Getting Your Account Hacked
O:57 1. Select a good password
2:42 2. Protect your password
3:30 3. Set and protect your secret answers
4:30 4. Set (and maintain!) alternate email address(es)
5:37 5. Set (and maintain!) mobile or other telephone number(s)
6:55 6. Enable two-factor authentication
7:48 7. Other provider-specific techniques
8:21 8: Use a different password on every site
9:10 9: Use a password manager
10:23 10. Be skeptical
11:41 11 Remember that free services have little to no support
12:35 12. Do this: Learn from your mistakes
❤️ My best articles: go.askleo.com/best
❤️ My Most Important Article: go.askleo.com/number1
More Ask Leo!
☑️ askleo.com to get your questions answered
☑️ newsletter.askleo.com to subscribe to the Confident Computing newsletter.
☑️ askleo.com/patron to help support Ask Leo!
☑️ askleo.com/all-the-different-ways-to-get-ask-leo for even more!
#askleo #hacked #account
