Email Hacking

[Cope57]

Is there anyway people can hack gmail , hotmail or other mail services easily?

Yes, and it is mostly due to user error. One would use the same password for everything, and would let friends log into their computers.

I would suggest a simple pattern of ten characters long or more consisting of two lower case letters, two upper case letters, two numbers, and two special characters. Something like this: 8p-mt+hXZT, and also change it occasionally, maybe every six months.

I have 39 passwords, a different one for each website I visit, which I change frequently as 6 months, but it depends on the information for the specific site.

I save the passwords on a .odt file which requires a password, and I keep that in an encrypted directory. Paranoid maybe, but I know it is safer than many.


Edit: Were you asking how to hack, or just asking in general of the security of the email websites?