There's nothing quite as annoying as losing track of your email address or password and not being able to get into your Google account — especially if it houses most of your digital life. Nothing, ...

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.

Google is limiting new accounts to just 5GB of storage (down from 15GB) in certain regions, but there is still a way to get the full amount.