there are a lot of reasons. an email address can be a resource for other passwords, banking info, personal information, etc. as a resource to the number of cyberpunks out there, it can also earn real money.
this is why I maintain a number of email accounts (3 on gmail and 1 on mail.com and one on hotmail). since I do not share information between these accounts (and they all have radically differing passwords) I have some isolation and thus limit the chances of a problem.
-eric
On Nov 21, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Thomas Gail Haws wrote:
> The question I have is why anybody would care to figure out your email password.
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> On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Before I left for Peru I got an email from Google telling me that someone in China had accessed my gmail account and that I should change my password unless it was me accessing my account from China. Well, I changed my pass word. Then I went to Peru and was expecting them to send me another email but one never arrived.
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> Someone figured out a password of seven numerals and 3 letters!
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