Personal Privacy Threatened: How Secure Are Your Email Passwords?

Washington Post: When Elaine Cioni found out that her married boyfriend had other girlfriends, she became obsessed, federal prosecutors say. So she turned to YourHackerz.com. ... And for only $100, YourHackerz.com provided Cioni, then living in Northern Virginia, with the password to her boyfriend's AOL e-mail account, court records show.

Some Major Email Hacking Cases:
Sarah Palin
Dave Briggs
The Twitter Hack
Miley Cyrus
Paris Hilton
George Mason University Provost Peter N. Stearns

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