How To Save Your Orkut Account From Hackers
Recently, two of my friends who were regular users of orkut (like me) woke up to find that their accounts were taken over by some weird jerk and that nasty scraps and photo comments had been sent out from their accounts. Obviously both were shocked, but one was at least able to recover his account while the other one still hasn’t been able to. How?
Simple. The first guy had an alternate e-mail address set up in his Google account settings (the alternate e-mail address will receive notifications of key changes in your account like password changes) and so when the whacko hacked into his account and changed his password, he was able to quickly change it. Now the other guy, well, he’s pretty f***ed up now 
As a CYA measure, log into your orkut account and go to the Settings page. Under My Account, click on Google Account Settings. Once inside your Google accounts page, under Personal Settings, click on Edit. Then, enter an e-mail address that is not linked with any other account (preferably with a strong password). Personally, I use a Zenbe account as my fallback. Happy & safe orkutting 
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Edited my personal settings as soon as i finished reading this post
@Anand: Glad to hear
Hello,
my gmail id is hacked and some some has changed its password . i can not access my account and i have some imporant mails in it. the problem had soled but always so much time how I save from hackers, and gmail administration did nothing , please help me
@Indra Mohan: Well it may have happened due to a lot of reasons – you might’ve used Gmail on a shared computer and left without signing off, or maybe someone (even a friend!) simply guessed your password. I’d strongly recommend you to – 1. Change your password. Use numbers and alphabets (uppercase and lowercase). 2. Setup secondary mail address (with a different password) 3. Occasionally backup important mail. Hope this helps
How do hackers hack the accounts?
@Prashant: They usually give links in scraps. They execute JavaScripts that read the logged in password saved in your browser’s cookies and mail it to the author.
I know this comment comes late :p but still, In gmail if u scroll waaaaaaay down to the bottom, there is a link called “Details”, if u click on it, it will show u the list of IP addresses from which your account has been accessed. It also gives you the option of signing out of other active sessions. Very useful thing that gmail labs(or gmail, not very sure) came up with.
Oh and one more safety feature would be to turn off web history in google settings. I dont know if there have been complaints regarding this, but i didnt like google tracking my search tags and saving it.