Our story begins with my wife updating her Google password. She got an alert from her iPhone saying her password may have been compromised. Now, to be fair, we use multi-factor authentication-- so a ...

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Update, Dec. 07, 2024: This story, originally published Dec. 05, has been updated with examples of the kind of cyber-attacks used by hackers and scammers to lock you out of your Gmail account. A Dec.