How to completely delete a Google account

[quote] which tells you if your email address has been used or attempted to be used by scammers

The site lists email addresses that were part of a data breach. The hackers only gain access to the data in that particular breach and might manage to login to your account only on that particular site, or not, depending on the severity of the breach. E.g. my data leaked in an Adobe breach in 2013 among hundreds of thousands or millions other Adobe clients but I just quickly changed my password at Adobe and that was that. I'm still using that email and it hasn't appeared anywhere else.

There's no need for you to cancel your personal email address if your login credentials to other sites have been leaked. The idea is to not use same passwords on different sites since if you use the same email address on various sites and use the same password for each of them the hackers gain access to all if one leaks.

OP, there's nothing to worry about if you've changed password at the site the hackers breached. If you've used the same password elsewhere where you've used the same email address change passwords immediately on all of them.

Hackers don't gain access to your email and most probably the email address is not used anywhere nefariously, I mean how can it be if they don't have access to it? It might be sold to spammers but that's just business as usual. As a side note you should enable the two-step verification on your email accounts which makes breaking in very hard.

BTW, it's good practice to use different emails for different purposes. I'd never use my work related email on porn sites. I have like 10 active emails currently. I only use three of them regularly, though.

Here's basics on how to keep your Gmail safe. Other providers use similar methods.

Can you create a new Google 2nd account and then delete the first one?

I don't quite get why you want to delete the first one. I mean you obviously can but if you've used it all around you'd have to change the email address on all sites. You can create as many email accounts as you like and use them at the same time. It's not like you can have only one active at a time.

Like I explained your email was most probably just part of a large data breach which will not affect the email address itself. It will not be used by the hackers since they do not gain access to it, unless you used the same password on that particular site and on your email account. It is possible that your house address and other contact info might've been leaked with the email address as well. Companies whose data have been breached generally release info on the level of the breach so you might want to check on that. However your house address is probably linked with your email address on various databases already and that in itself is not something to worry about.

I'd advice you to just change the password on the leaked site, and IF you've used the same password on other sites change them there as well. You should never use the same password on multiple sites. And turn on the two-way verification on your email account if you already haven't.

Just to make it clear if you delete your email account and create a new one they are two separate email accounts. You can't change the address to something else and expect it to be changed everywhere automatically. The address name itself is the identifying part of the email account.

I no longer use the sites my email address was leaked on R3 one of the sites doesn't even exist anymore. My issues started when a scam email with an attached virus made to look like a legit email from my internet provider made it into my Gmail Inbox and I opened it and as a result, had to pay to have the virus removed and also had to change all my banking information and after all that I got the Exact Same Email Again and once again Gmail let it through into my inbox so I just want a new Gmail address to get rid of these people.

R4 Here and no I didn't open the second email in fact I don't open any emails from my ISP anymore.

Hooray, I have not been pwned.

I'm sorry to hear you were scammed. I hate those scamming cunts. I personally always keep a clean backup of my Windows on an external hard drive in case of accidentally downloading ransomware. If that happens I'll just wipe the hard drive clean and install the backup. There's no way in hell I'd ever pay a cent to those fuckers.

What happened after you paid them? Have you used any anti-virus software to remove the malware from your computer? If I were you I'd probably re-install Windows from the scratch.

OP, if I understand you right, you got scammed and then 'paid money to have the virus removed.' To whom did you pay money? If if was the scammer, dispute the charge with your bank, as the scammer didn't provide a service.

Op here, I didn't pay anyone anything the only things on this PC are games so if they did try to ransomware this PC I would just wipe everything and start over, what I did pay for was to have the viruses they installed removed and to get antivirus and antimalware programs installed. I'm just mad that Gmail let a fake scam email go through not once but twice(the EXACT same email!) If Google would just let you change your Gmail address that would fix pretty much everything but they won't.

What antivirus and antimalware software did you buy? I hope you didn't buy it from the scammers? If you did I wouldn't trust they really removed the malware. Tech help scamming is huge these days and many or most seem to originate from India.