You can periodically look at “ALL” mail on the left side options, you should be able to see Bolded messages which the hacker either forwarded or deleted. At least that worked for me.

“All Mail” is a hidden option but there nonetheless.

Otherwise you can periodically look at your filter and forwarding settings to see if a hacker has changed them.

If you find them, you can delete them.

You can also switch to another email provider and hope for the best.

I had my Gmail account hacked today. Yep, the hacker added the following filters:

Matches: from:(from:enquiry OR from:consulta OR from:abritel OR from:inquiry OR from:fewo-direkt OR from:homelidays OR from:aanvraag OR from:vacationrentalagent.com OR from:flipkey.com OR from:ownersdirect OR from:rentals OR from:holidaylettings OR from:richiesta OR from:enquiries OR from:demande OR from:envoi OR from:estadísticas OR from:pureholidayhomes.com)
Do this: Never mark it as important

Notice that this creep did not seem to forward anything – just “never mark as Important? Strange. How did this help him?

What was really happening was that emails arriving in my inbox with certain content would vanish within a few seconds of arrival – as if they had been forwarded and deleted. How was this done as there was nothing in forwarding and just the note mentioned above in filters?

Was he like a Trojan horse residing in my pc? Was he somehow in Gmail’s server? Was it all by remote control based on pre-set settings which I could not see?

Turns out that the hacker was answering them as if he was me, and then attempting to collect funds which were payable to me, often in excess of 5 figures USD, in each of the emails. A lot of money.

The unsuspecting senders of the emails had no clue and thought they were getting a response from me as to where to send their money! Little doubt that any money sent likely went to Russia or China.

This guy is a hard cold criminal, much like the guy in David’s situation, except he has ashed in on some major $.

Has he done this 100 times, a 1000 times, or maybe a million times?

I’ve reported this to gmail. Haha. And to the FBI and to the law enforcement cyber consortium to which they belong.

I expect Gmail to do nothing, and for the FBI to get nowhere with this.

Is there any excuse for Gmail not fixing their security problem? Is there any reason that Gmail can’t notify an account owner when someone from a foreign county has accessed your account? We know the answer is NO. Why won’t they? It’s really hard to understand, as they become unwitting accomplices to the criminal and don’t seem to care!

Several things I learned like David:

1. When you get hacked you are on your own.
2. It is nearly impossible to identify the point of entry or the weakness.
3. There seems to be no way to protect yourself, because if this creep got in once, there is nothing keeping him or others from doing it again.
4. I gave my password to no one, nor did I click on any greeting cards nor click on any executable files from unknown senders.
5. I have concluded that NO ONE is safe from a hacker.
6. Humans wrote the code creating Gmail, and those men or women are free to be hackers or to give or sell the code to hackers.
7. As long as humans create the security, there will never be any true security.
8. It is as if you have a high $ safe for valuables in your home, and there are 1,000 guys one the street who literally have a key to it.
9, No person is safe. No government is safe. No bank account is safe. No corporate or government or military secrets are safe.
10 The Internet has brought with it a monster akin to, but far more powerful than Frankenstein. Once created, literally no one can stop him, and his evil doing is unending. He controls us all. There seems to be no solution.

The basis for David’s and all other poster’s frustration is very understandable. Our Internet world is absolutely insecure.

Wow!

Guess anyone who uses gmail’s in for a big surprise WHEN THEY GET HACKED. AND YOU WILL GET HACKED and don’t expect google to help you. Frankly, I wish someone had posted this problem before I joined back when they first started. If I were you, I’d cancel my account right now. All my personal information was in there, thank god I made some tweaks to it before this. Is your personal info in your gmail account? Facebook, Linkedin, Tweeter are also going to cause you problems and you’ll get hacked…. I TRUSTED THESE FOLKS and I trusted these websites. Guess I’ll read the next Terms before signing on to anyone for free.

this email’s no longer mine, it’s been hacked. richcarbajal@gmail.com along with facebook, tweeter, linkedin, and so on… NO thanks to GMAIL.

They should have a better way to manage these filters.
Firstly I do agree that this post is 3 years old and I hope there are improvements in gmail accounts.

There are many business starting to use Gmail for Business which apparently says it provides:

SSL enforcement for secure HTTPS access
Customizable spam filtering
Customize password strength requirements
Email routing and email gateway support
Customizable policies to filter email containing sensitive information
Email encryption using standard TLS protocols

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I really don’t know if this is going to help solve anything for future problems.

And for the person who has hijacked your domain, I am sure that person will have to pay for what it has done.

Glad to hear that you got it back.

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Cheers