Password Hackers Do Big Business With Ex-Lovers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday September 7, 2009 @04:46AM from the time-to-get-sneakier dept.

Hugh Pickens writes "The Washington Post reports that disgruntled lovers and spouses considering divorce are flocking to services like YourHackerz.com that boast they have little trouble hacking into Web-based e-mail systems like AOL, Yahoo, Gmail, Facebook and Hotmail. The services advertise openly, and there doesn't appear to be much anyone can do about it because while federal law prohibits hacking into e-mail, without further illegal activity, it's only a misdemeanor, says Orin Kerr, a law professor at George Washington University. 'The feds usually don't have the resources to investigate and prosecute misdemeanors,' says Kerr. 'And part of the reason is that normally it's hard to know when an account has been compromised, because e-mail snooping doesn't leave a trace.' It's not clear where YourHackerz.com is located, but experts suspect that most password hacking businesses are based overseas."

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Re:compromised by moonbender · 2009-09-07 05:27 · Score: 4, Informative

Google Mail gives you an activity log: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=gmail&answer=45938
It's pretty damn cool.

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Re:So wait... by linhares · 2009-09-07 05:40 · Score: 3, Informative

until she installs a keylogger. Physical access is game over.
Re:Trivial. by Anonymous Coward · 2009-09-07 06:12 · Score: 3, Informative

Heh, you're over estimating the level of skill involved.
There are some interesting discussions of how these services work here:
crackpal.com
crackmails.net