Jul 30, 2019  How to protect your private photos and personal data from being hacked Protect your private photos and personal content from being hacked by following these security precautions! Offer 2-factor authentication (2fa). Apple's version pops up a token code on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, and you have to punch it in to get access. Other systems. As a matter of fact, your Mac has a built-in detection feature that guards against common malware usually found in downloaded files. It is updated regularly, but as a secondary protection, it always better to know how to defend your Mac laptop from malicious activities. Top 10 Mac Solutions to Protect Your Computer Against Hacking.

I'm surprised that nobody but one of the hosts has taken the time to answer you. Not my area of expertise, but I'll give you some ideas.

I've never run across any case of the Apple Mail application being used in this way without physical access to your computer over by controlling it remotely over a network. All a spammer really needs is your e-mail address (which I suppose is what the host removed for you) and he can send tons of e-mail out that appears to come from you, some of which doesn't go through and is bounced back to you.

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The second biggest way this happens, as you have guessed, is to hack your e-mail account by guessing the password and using that to send spam. Depending on what your preferences are set to, you may be able to tell if this was done if the outgoing messages appear in your 'Sent' folder. If you find such messages, you can be assured that they were sent using your e-mail account in some manner. If there you do save sent messages and there is no sign of them, then they are just using your e-mail address.

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