In email, as a rule, you can find not only personal information - from here hackers can open their way to other services for which you set a password. And everything is done simply - through password recovery. What actions need to be done first?

Detecting someone else's presence in the logs

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Find out if you have unauthorized access to your accounts, it is often possible by analyzing account usage statistics (logs) maintained by all major services. However, such logs are hidden deep in the settings. We'll show you where to look for them using Gmail as an example.

Account login information. When viewing information about logins to your Google Account, pay attention to the device and location information (1). In the settings you can enable alerts about suspicious activities (2)

IN postal service Google optionally alerts you when someone successfully logs into your account from an unfamiliar computer or mobile gadget. To activate the sending of such messages, after entering your credentials, click on your profile and click on the “My Account” button. Here, select the “Device Actions and Alerts” section and click on “Manage Settings”.

Protection mailbox
Many providers have security questions for this purpose. It is worth changing them periodically

Set how Google subsequently shares similar clickstream information with you. Receiving a notification may indicate that someone has tracked and hacked your account. In this case, go again, as described above, to “Device actions and alerts” and click on “View connected devices”. You will see a list of all devices from which you logged into Google using your login.

Removing hacker tokens

If on the list Google service An unfamiliar device has appeared, you need to urgently take action - immediately change the password and expel the intruders. Since those, after a successful login, directly connect to services through a so-called token, simply changing passwords is not enough.

The point is that a token is an individual access key with which a PC or smartphone is registered in the service. It does not change even when the password is reset and is valid until it is deactivated.

To do this, in Gmail, go to your account settings again and there click on “ Related apps and websites | Application management." In the window that opens, you will see all services and devices connected by the token.

If you are not sure which keys were created from your computer, as a precaution, delete everything. The only drawback: after this you will have to log in to Gmail again from all devices.

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No one is immune from losing their password or other data to access their Google account. In this article we will tell you in detail how to recover a Google account.

Forgot your password

Such the method will work those users who have absolutely all the information to restore their account. When registering an account, you must fill in all the data that can help with recovery. If you have all the necessary data, to recover your Google account password, you should follow several steps: simple steps: Go to Google Account Recovery and in the window that opens, select the line “I don’t remember my password.”

Then enter the email address of the account you want to recover and click Continue.

Entering data in the line “I don’t remember my password”

A line will open in which you need to enter the password that you remember. If you can’t remember your password at all, click the “Difficult to answer” button.

After clicking the “Difficult to answer” button, the system will automatically go to the password recovery form. Here you can restore your Google account using the phone number to which the account is linked. The system will offer to choose the most convenient option for you - SMS message or voice call.

In case you do not have access to the specified number phone, there is a corresponding button. After clicking on it, another form will appear in which you will need to enter the spare email address.

Attention! If you did not provide a mobile phone number and a backup email address, this method will not work for you!

Missing phone number and spare email

If there is no contact information, you can still restore your account. However, it will be a little more difficult. To do this, you also click on the “I don’t remember my password” option in Google Account Recovery, after which a special form will open. In it you will need to answer several questions about using your account. This procedure is necessary because Google cares about the security of its users' data. If you don't remember the exact answers to the questions or dates, give at least an approximate answer. All fields are required!

After you fill out the data, the system will recognize you as the owner (if the answers are given exactly or approximately correctly), and a form will be opened for you to set a new password.

Recovering using a mobile phone

In order to be able to use this method in the future, during registration you need to enable the password recovery function by mobile phone number. Thus, if you lose your password, restoring it will not take much time. Using this method, you can restore your Google account on your phone. To perform a password recovery operation, follow a few simple steps:

• 1. Go to the support page and enter the phone number that was specified during registration in the special field.

• 2. After clicking the “Next” button, a small window will appear in front of you with a code that you need to enter in the field below and click “Continue”. After this, the following window will open in which you must select the method of receiving the password reset code - SMS message or voice call.

• 3. After you select the appropriate option, the following window will open with a field for entering the code. If the code is entered correctly, the old password will be reset and you can set a new one.

Attention! The number of SMS sent per day is limited! There are also cases when the SMS does not arrive immediately, so if you did not wait for the SMS message and sent several more requests, the last version of the code in the message will be correct.

Account completely forgotten

You had a Google account, and you suddenly remembered it, but you don’t even remember your login - this method is for you. To restore, you need to go to gmail.com. A login window will open in front of you. In it, click the “Unable to sign in to your account” button.

A window will appear with options for recovery. Select “I don’t remember my username” and click the “Continue” button.

Selecting “I don’t remember my username”

In the new window, carefully fill out the fields. All fields are required. Here you need to enter a spare email address, last name and first name during registration and enter the code from the picture, then click “Submit”.

After the manipulations have been completed, a letter will be sent to you to your alternate email address with further instructions on restoration.

Account has been deleted

A deleted Google account can only be restored within one week after deletion. After this, the account is deleted forever without the possibility of recovery. To do this, open the gmail.com website and enter your account login and password.

You can restore your account only by sending a code to your mobile phone number. To do this you need to choose more convenient way receiving a code - SMS message or voice call.

If you use the phone number and alternate email at this moment is not possible, you can benefit from recovery by providing account information. The data must be provided as accurately as possible so that the system recognizes you as the account owner. If the answers are incorrect, the system will not restore the account. In this case, the problem can only be resolved by registering a new account.

Synchronization with phone after changing password

First, select a password recovery or change method, then install New Password. After changing the password, activate synchronization with the application on your mobile phone.

If synchronization does not occur automatically, then you need to go to the phone settings and stop the application through them yourself. After this, the application needs to be launched and it will ask for a new password.

Conclusion

Now the account is in Google system gives access to all services under one name. It is very convenient and easy to use. Also, practically no registration on third party resources cannot pass without specifying an email. This is why it is worth having a Google account. But if you forgot your password or even login to log into your account, it doesn’t matter. Restoring it is quite simple, especially if you remember (or have written down) some data, such as a secret word, registration date, etc. During registration, do not neglect to enter all the necessary data for subsequent account recovery. It is necessary to fill out all fields, especially your last name and first name, as well as your mobile phone number and spare email address.

How to recover a Google account: The most effective ways

Open Source Deanon Tools

In the first years, my sexy classmate Disa was busy picking up new girls on stream, finding their VKontakte accounts and determining all their interests. A popular practice already in those days, judging by my surveys. Fun and playful: VK was several years old, few people thought about privacy on the Internet at all, and easily obtained personal information allowed him to do all sorts of things to a person. Or, fortunately, not to do anything wrong. Today, even more de-anonymizing data is leaked onto the Internet, often surprising even the pundits of our time. You can even find people on the Internet who don’t use it—your parents, for example. Today we are talking about deanonymization and your favorite “IP calculation”.

Social networks don't just know everything about you, they can even know things you don't fully understand. Like the story with the pregnant schoolgirl. Try to dig into advertising targeting on Facebook - you will be surprised at what non-obvious parameters you can use to target ads. From my experience: showing a banner to “two close people temporarily separated by distance” and searching for “people who donate a lot to mobile games for iOS."
IN in social networks You can close or delete, but it’s unlikely to be removed from government databases. On the one hand, this is convenient: a confident PC user, Lyudmila Mikhailovna from the housing department, no longer asks you to bring spit-stained receipts from your mailbox - she has the “City” system. You can check your taxes, fines and debts by going to the website of the relevant service, and modern banks have even learned to do all this for you (by at least in Moscow).

On the other hand, the “phone database” on DVD is a bestseller on Gorbushka in the early 2000s. Bullshit from the past, yes, but imagine my surprise when one of the real mobile numbers I was able to get through all the data on my car with great difficulty. Using the VIN number I found, I was able to find out the phone numbers, names and regions of residence of the previous owners. By name - VK accounts, their previous cars and... in short, let's get started.
In this post we’ll talk about finding “ordinary” people. Let's analyze the tools for obtaining maximum information about a person in open sources networks, no worse than the old-school “call by phone.” For celebrities, politicians and popular accounts, the methods may differ, but have many overlaps.
This time it’s more difficult with examples. Despite dozens of successful deanons, I cannot link to any of them without violating the privacy of the participants. You will have to take examples from other sources or experiment on yourself.

Basic clues for the search

Personal data

Nickname, first and last name, date of birth, phone number, address, education, service, Taxpayer Identification Number (SSN), etc. More often than not, only one thing is known, but often this is enough to get started.

Let's go to Google. The starting point of most investigations. By nickname, Google will reveal a person’s accounts in games or on forums, which often reveal other data to us. Steam knows what other nicknames a person plays under, the forums display the date of birth. Educational institutions often publish lists of students. One “but” - don’t rush to immediately trust what you find. How often do you enter something like 01-02-1983 instead of your date of birth on forums? So am I.

Don't forget about search operators. Searching for “filetype:doc” (or xls, pdf) can help if a person has participated in any olympiads or competitions. Educational establishments often publish their results on websites without particularly thinking about privacy. American or Euro students can be found using the “site:.edu” filter, which will search for sites in the university area.

Social search and the deep web. Although large search engines have agreed with social networks to index their data, it is often just a first and last name and a couple of lines of biography. Social networks still remain practically a DeepWeb for researchers; on the investigation site FirstDraftNews a whole article was written for foreigners on how to register in VK to make it easier to conduct investigations.

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Search Facebook , , Twitter- the main starting points. Their capabilities are enormous: search by vague name, age, study and service.

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Explanations are unnecessary here; the search forms speak for themselves. Filtering by city, age and other data is not difficult. But there are also some things that are not obvious. From what I often use: Facebook allows you to search by phone number, even if the user is not your friend - a new “phone database” from Gorbushka. Twitter will help you find not only the user, but also everyone who responded to him in replays or mentioned him in specific dates. If you know more similar non-obvious features, write in the comments under this paragraph.

Meta search engines and aggregators. In Russia, the most popular is people.yandex.ru, abroad there is PeekYou and analogues that are easy to Google using the query “people search”. Their bases and opportunities are meager; most often the gentleman’s set is a name and a city. But their advantage is that they often find related accounts on other social networks that you might not even know about.

Documents and open data

In addition to our personal footprint on social networks, some data appears online without our knowledge. Databases of all ministries, public utilities, government services, Rosreestr, registers of legal entities, bailiffs - all this opens additional features For search. For example, you know that your target drives a car, is engaged in business, or bought an apartment - most likely some information about these transactions is easily available on the Internet.

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This data is not available for search engines, as they require input search query. But these databases are often used by Navalny’s FBK; they conduct many of their investigations through the state procurement register, Rosreestr (the latter about Medvedev too) and paid service SPARK, recently made famous in history with the League of Schools.

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Obviously, there is no single global repository for such data. If you need to find a person outside the Russian Federation, look for the appropriate database. Often the availability of personal data in other countries can be surprising. From the experience of my own searches, I can say that in Sweden and some states of the United States there are so-called White Pages, where you can easily find such terry insights that this entire post will seem unnecessary. Right down to the cat's name.

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In the USA or Europe there is a lot of open data, in Asia and the Middle East there is less. Here are a few more aggregators for example.

Skipease— still a live page with a selection of social search engines in the USA. There is also a whole list of alternatives on the page; they can help in other countries.

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Investigative Dashboard Search— search for documents and companies, an analogue of Spark for international searches. It also works well in Russia, especially if the person is in the top or is involved in government procurement. This is how you can find out that Navalny was on the board of directors of Aeroflot in 2012 (but no longer). I didn't know.

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AVInfo— an open database of cars in Russia and their owners. You can search by license plate number, owner’s phone number, VIN and get a lot of information about previous owners, maintenance, insurance and technical inspections. The database contains more than 13 million Russian cars, mostly from Moscow and St. Petersburg.

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It is used to its fullest by auto-pickers, since, among other things, it aggregates and saves advertisements from the author and the directory. There is for them paid account with advanced capabilities, but for most of our purposes a free one will do. If someone has not yet understood what the goals are, then this makes it possible to recognize him from a photograph of the next “kid next to his four” in one request mobile phone. And if, to celebrate, he also posted in Instagram photo registration certificate or driver's license on your forehead, as is customary upon receipt, then here the deanon can be right up to your home address. This is probably a topic for a separate post.

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Well, or a more everyday question: find out the phone number previous owner cars to politely (!) ask how long ago the suspension was changed. If you have used any other similar services, share your experience in the comments below.

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Photos

We looked for places based on photography in the previous post, but these tools are often suitable for people. The view from the window can give out coordinates, and a reverse search by image can lead to the user’s avatar or album with photographs. On leprosy or dvach, they always find all sorts of skins in VK, it’s as easy as shelling pears.

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What stands out here is searching for people by photo. The first such service was Face.com, it even found inaccurate matches of facial features, but it was quickly bought and closed by Facebook. I won’t joke about the Crafty Mark again, they joked about it already in the previous post. Last year, FindFace from N-Tech.Lab appeared for VK, doing roughly the same thing, but under the guise of a marketing tool. Based on it, Egor Tsvetkov’s project from the St. Petersburg “Paper” was especially bombed, when he photographed strangers in the subway and then found their profiles on VK, learning a lot about their lives from one sad photo.

Location

IP address. “I’ll calculate by IP” has become a meme, but this does not make the method any less effective. Through the GeoIP2 City database, the country and city where a given IP address is located is clearly determined. Accuracy to the city is almost guaranteed; I have been using their database in my projects for three years now. Failures occur only in rare cases when some mobile operator decides to transfer a pool of IP addresses from one region to another. But this happens once a couple of years and can be easily resolved by updating the database monthly.

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GeoIP also provides coordinates, but warns not to use them as the user's location. Most often, this is just a point somewhere in the center of the city or district of the provider. But we can try to find a map of this provider’s nanonetworks, and the search area becomes even larger.

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But IP is very easy to fake, it is never 100% proof. Proxy servers and tunnels VPN type allow anyone to do this in one click. If a person wants to hide an IP, it won’t be difficult. GeoIP gives a different part of the world - most likely he did, but still sometimes this can be a clue.

Other user photos. Once you have your license, stick it on your forehead and post it so everyone can recognize the series and number. This has already been done above. From the less obvious - photographs of receipts from the supermarket, coupons electronic queue or the view from the window. Determining the address down to the floor becomes a matter of technique and desire, if this is important.

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There is no single advice here. Any information from the photo can become a clue, look carefully at your surroundings.

Geo search. All popular social networks have geotags. Facebook suggests checking in in a variety of places, Twitter writes your coordinates to each tweet, VK adds a geotag to photos from mobile applications. Sometimes the user does not notice this, and to fake them, you need to know how to program. For the tweeter there is GeoSocialFootprint, which analyzes the user's latest geotags. You can try to find similar services for other social networks or sort through this data manually.

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There is also the opposite possibility: search for tweets near specific coordinates. So request

In this article we will find out how to properly restore your Google account.

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Many users are familiar with the situation when the password for a desired service is lost or forgotten. One of the most often forgotten is a Google account, which makes it possible to use many services. Moreover, access is lost and after voluntary account deletion. What to do in a situation where the password is forgotten or lost? How to recover your Google account?

Recovering a deleted Google account

Whether an account can be restored depends on when it was deleted. If no more than five days have passed since this moment, then you can return back without any problems. Otherwise, the recording cannot be restored.

To log into your account, you must provide standard information - login and password.

If you have forgotten your password, the system will prompt you to restore it. To do this you need:

• Click on the line "Help"

"Help" section

• A window will open for you to choose one of three options
• Check the box next to "

• You will be taken to an email entry window. Enter a valid address and proceed further

• Then a new window will open for you to enter your old password, in case you remember at least something
• If you don’t remember anything at all, then at least just try to restore your account using this method

How to recover a Google account using a phone number?

What to do if the data is completely forgotten?

• Then check the box next to "I find it difficult to answer"
• You will be asked to unlock your account using your phone number that was used during registration
• Click the appropriate button to send the code

• You will receive a message with a password
• Enter it in a special line and confirm the action

• You will find yourself on new page to enter a new password and confirm it

• Once you have provided the required information, click "Password reset"
• After this, you can log into your account with a new password

How to recover Google account using additional email?

If you are unable to use your phone, you can restore to a backup email address. As a rule, it is also indicated during registration, just like the telephone number.

• Enter your backup email

• Click "Continue"
• A letter from Google will immediately be sent to the specified mailbox.

• It contains instructions for recovery

What to do if there is no email or phone number?

In this case, you can unlock by answering a few questions. For example, this could be a question about the date the account was created, some personal data, folder names, and so on. Based on the results of your answers, the system will be able to conclude whether you are the owner of the account or not. Accordingly, on this basis, a decision on restoration will be made.

If the questions the system asks you seem difficult, then try doing a little fortune telling. The system will make a decision if most of the answers are correct, not necessarily all.

When the system approves the restoration of the page, enter the new password twice and confirm it with the appropriate button.

Synchronizing your Google account after recovery

If your account is associated with several devices, then after changing the password they may not work correctly because they do not know the new password. What to do for fast synchronization?

There are several ways to do this.

Method 1: Restart the application

• Open any application Google

• It will immediately ask you to enter your password.
• After entering it, synchronization will be restored

Method 2: Delete your account

• Open your device settings
• Go to "Accounts and synchronization"
• Find an account Google

• Delete your account
• Now create a new account

That's all! Your account is now synced

Method 3. Change gadget settings

• Go to the section "Applications"
• Find a subsection "Gmail"
• Select the command " Force stop"
• Next, clear the cache by pressing the appropriate key
• Now open your mail Gmail
• Enter a new password
• The account is now synchronized

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You can recover your Google account different ways, which depend on how exactly you lost access. You can unlock your account in several well-known ways, depending on what data you have saved from Google services. Below are instructions on what to do if you unexpectedly forgot your password and how to recover your Google account. If these methods do not suit you, then we will solve your problem personally, you just need to unsubscribe in the comments.

Recovering a deleted account

The ability to recover a deleted Google account depends on the timing of its deletion. If no more than 5 days have passed since the account was deleted, the service Google support will help you recover your account.

When you try to log into your account, Google requires you to enter your mailbox address and password.

If you forgot your password, the system will offer you its help to recover your lost data. To do this, do the following:

1. Click on the “Help” line. A window will appear asking you to select one of three positions.
   
2. You need to check the first line, “I don’t remember my password.” This will open a window asking you to enter your email address.
   
3. Please enter a real email address. After this, another window will appear. Enter numbers or letters that you remember at least a little. If you don’t remember at all, at least try to recover your data this way. account.
4. What should I do if I completely forgot my credentials? If you do not remember your password, please indicate that you are at a loss to answer. You will be prompted to unlock your account by entering your real phone number that you are currently using. If you specified a phone number in your account settings and it remained the same, then unblock deleted account Google will be available via SMS or as a result phone call. A confirmation code will be sent to your number very soon. You need to enter it in the appropriate field and you will be able to unlock the Google entry.
   
5. On new page Enter the changed password and then confirm it. After that, click the “Reset Password” button, which is located at the bottom of the window. Old Password from your account will be reset. Access to Google posts will be restored with the new password.
   
6. If you are unable to use your phone, you can restore access after deleting your Google account to your backup email address. Usually when creating Google account you are asked to conduct additional mailing address. Enter it in the appropriate field. For further steps, click the “Continue” button. Now open your backup mail, and read the letter that came from Google. It will contain instructions telling you what to do if your account is mistakenly deleted.
   
7. If you have not provided information about your phone number and additional box email, you can unlock your account only by answering a few additional questions. For example, questions such as: “when was your Google account created”, “when did you log into it in last time", some email addresses, the name of the created shortcuts, etc. Based on the results of your answers, Google will conclude whether you are the owner of the account. Accordingly, a decision will be made whether to unlock it or not.

Advice: if the questions Google asks you seem too complicated and you don’t know the answer, just try to guess some data. The system will make a decision based on the majority of answers.

The last step is changing your password. Come up with any option that suits your taste.

How to recover a forgotten password?

Let's look at 2 ways you can restore forgotten password to your Google account, if the login is known.

A phone number or another email address is linked to your account

If you forgot only your password, you will have to do the following operations:

How to recover a password if the data is not specified

You can unlock access if you know your Google login if you answer a few questions correctly. All of them will relate to your account. Please indicate the approximate time and date of your account visit. The closer the date you enter to the real one, the easier it will be to prove that the profile belongs to you.

Tip: If you selected when creating your account Secret Question, and answered it, then there will be no problems with recovery. Always write down questions like these and their answers.

If you answered correctly, Google will make a positive decision to reset your password. After confirming your account, you will be asked to change your password to one you choose. This way you can quickly unblock your account.