How To Close a Hacked Hotmail Account?
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If your Hotmail account has been hacked, you should take the following steps to close it:
1. Log in to your account and change your password. Make sure to choose a strong, complex password with a combination of upper and lower case letters, numbers and symbols.
2. Change your security questions and answers.
3. Go to the Account Details page and select the “Close Account” option.
4. Follow the instructions to complete the process.
5. Delete all emails, contacts, and other personal data from the account.
6. Contact Microsoft support to report the security breach and ask them to delete all account data from their system.
7. Finally, create a new Hotmail account and take extra measures to ensure it is secure.