Originally posted here by |The|Specialist
Why the heck would anyone want to steal a account? I mean just because its stolen doesn't mean that it will cover your tracks.
simple. if someone gains access to an account of someone whom they want to 'spy' on. Then they could potentially gain the information in which they are interested in learning from the person who they are 'spying' on. They could also learn passwords from users, who send to the victims account, or even other passwords of the victim, who has emailed to other users (of course they would only see incoming messages unless the victim saved outgoing messages, which is not on by default with Hotmail). The list goes on and on, in what you can obtain by gaing access to someone's email account.