what happens when your e-mail account gets hacked

Here is some advice for those of you who do not back up your e-mail address list. Back it up!!!! My email account was hacked and google had to shut my account down. I lost all of my e-mail addresses and had to rebuild them from scratch. A simple way to back up is to export your contact list as a .csv file to excel and save the file or print it. If you back your computer up daily or weekly, you will have saved the file. You can also back up to outlook if you have it, although I don't know how to do this myself. But- as Nike says- Just Do It!!!