What to Do If You've Been Hacked From telling your bank to changing your passwords, here's every step you need to follow, stat.

 Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of Americans have been working from home, banking from home, attending school from home, and doing pretty much anything else imaginable from home. But unfortunately, bad actors are capitalizing upon that reality as an opportunity to steal citizens' private information.

According to Thales, a French company in the cybersecurity business, large-scale spam campaigns are using the coronavirus crisis as a way to spread ransomware, install banking malware, and direct users to fraudulent webpages about COVID-19.

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So hackers aren't slowing down—they're becoming more savvy. But how can you tell if your information has been compromised, and what are the next steps you should take if you suspect one of your accounts has been hacked?

"I think we are inundated with so much information that sometimes we become numb to the fear, uncertainty, and doubt," Tiffany Franklin, manager of cybersecurity education for the Denver-based network security company Optiv, tells Popular Mechanics. "It's not that we need to be fearful of cybercriminals, per se, but we need to understand the risks and better educate ourselves."