Is Your Email Account Ever Hacked? Which?

[K_M 0]

Share your thoughts.

[TCH-Don 0]

You need to add other options,

as I have never had any of thoses happen to me

[Madmanmcp 0]

You have two questions here and I am confused by what you meant to ask. What do you meen by "hacked". Isn't stealing a password "hacking"?

[K_M 0]

You have two questions here and I am confused by what you meant to ask. What do you meen by "hacked". Isn't stealing a password "hacking"?

Password stealing is a sub-domain of hacking. A hacker can access any account even without a password, thanks to vulnerabilities(which remain open for a small period, enough for him to cause havoc). Few years back, there was a loophole in hotmail system, by which one could open inbox of any person WITHOUT a password, just by typing a specific URL associated with that account. All he needed was that URL and nothing else to login. Hotmail patched their system soon.

 

Read this, if you are a Gmail fan:

http://www.networkpunk.com/?q=node/view/222

[Madmanmcp 0]

Ahhh yes, the joys of signing up for "free email". Ever hear the saying you get what you pay for? No system is 100% secure, if there were there would be no hackers.

 

And no I am not a gmail fan either.

[Deverill 0]

Never been hacked but one time my girlfriend (at the time) asked me my password and in my sleep I gave it to her. The really weird thing is that she's deaf and I fingerspelled the password! I woke up the next morning and she told me how she got on.

[jandafields 0]

Never been hacked but one time my girlfriend (at the time) asked me my password and in my sleep I gave it to her. The really weird thing is that she's deaf and I fingerspelled the password! I woke up the next morning and she told me how she got on.

Wow! Just imagine all the info she has gotton from you in your sleep, and hasn't told you about...

[oompahloompah 0]

Why would someone want to go to all the trouble to hack a person's email account, I'll never know.

 

Bob, how come you're not a fan of gmail? Is it because of their AdSense?