[kayl1986]

How likely is somebody able too hack into my email.

I dont know alot about computers and my password is not easy well i dont think so anyway.
my ex has got hold of my email and his friend is whizz on computers he is threatning too hack in. how possible is this? is there special software that can guess corrct password for any avccount. i'm thinking of closing my account because this but so much hassle. I know you shouldn't do this but use same password for paypal/ebay/photobucket everything do i cancel everything vhange passwords again. or am i paranoid be grateful some advice please xxx

[kanoakavirus]

Change the password to something along the lines of djd8722ssjf8u
Laugh at this person and laugh hard! believe me just laugh at his threats.
It is possible via key loggers or brute password crackers etc but this kid ain't getting anywhere providing you have a secure password and keep up to date with anti virus, spyware , firewall etc. If he was going to do anything he'd of done it by now. hollow threats are to be laughed at and he can be dealt with by the police, hacking is classed as criminal damage i believe

[philthomas]

Also ... if your ex and his friend have hotmail accounts, report their threats to hotmail, quoting their email addresses ... they take this sort of thing quite seriously.

As kano says .... change your password to something that couldn't be guessed by your ex , a combination of letters and numbers is good (but dont use phone numbers or birthdates).

As to PayPal, Ebay etc. change these as well, but using the same password for all is like putting all your eggs in one basket and not a good idea.
Try to think of a password with a unique number, known only to you and top and tail it with your Grandmothers initials or wedding date, that should provide you with a decent level of security .... the longer the password the better.

[serverguy]

Change your passwords and ignore him.

Hes a liar.

One thing to be sure of which can be used to hack an account very easily is the security question.

If you have a hotmail.com account you don't have to answer many other questions to reset the password if you don't have an alternate email address specified.

Just make the security question really hard to guess and you are safe.

For anyone who doesn't believe me on how easy hotmail.com address are to hack, create an account with a .com ending (example@hotmail.com) with no alternate email address and an easy to guess security question.

Go to reset your password option and you would be surprised.