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Account recovery hijacking

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An email confirms a change to your recovery address — which you didn't change.

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New message · Fictional online service

Notifications <notifications@fictional-service-account.example-not-real.test>

Your account's recovery email address was changed successfully. New recovery address: r.dubois-pro@example-not-real.test If you didn't make this change, you have 24 hours to undo it from your account's security settings.

What do you do?

This simulation illustrates Account recovery hijacking. The article explains the full mechanism, the warning signs and what to do.