Preventing security breaches through @mac.com email account

miguel510 wrote:

How to prevent my security being breached through my email account ending in @mac.com? Please advise.

Thank you

Your Apple Account password is the target here, and your account security is what protects your mail account.

An email account itself is intended to be public knowledge, though most any email account will get targeted with spam. The email account itself is not a security risk.

Here is how to evaluate your Apple Account security: Better Securing Your Data, and Apple Acco… - Apple Community

Identifying phishing: Recognize and avoid social engineering schemes including phishing messages, phony support calls, and other scams - Apple Support

Here are the email domains used by Apple iCloud: About your @icloud.com, @me.com, and @mac.com email addresses - Apple Support

You can add your own email aliases for an Apple iCloud email account such as mac.com, and can add email domains as well.

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Don't open any email on iCloud or any other email that you don't know who the sender is.

You have a few email addresses with Apple, not just the one you used to set up your Apple ID with. You should log into your iCloud account and find them.