“Your boyfriend turned out to be married? Do not worry! For $ 100 we will get the password to this bastard's mailbox, and for $ 100 another is his wife's password, ”something like the advertisement of the hacker service
YourHackerz.com and its counterparts, of which there are a lot of them (the sites constantly change their location). Before receiving the payment, they send a screenshot of the hacked mailbox as proof to the client.
Clients hackers are the widest sections of the population. Virginia recently sentenced
a 53-year-old woman to 15 months in prison, who turned to this service to find out the passwords of her former lover and his wife, and then terrorized them by phone, using special software to change the tone of her voice (advanced granny).
That is, the hacker business goes to the masses and begins to serve the general population. Demand creates supply. An increasing part of our life goes online, and the value of the same password from the mail grows every day.
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Interestingly, according to American law, the mere fact of entering into someone else's mailbox is not a serious crime, unless some malicious activity followed. Computer experts point to this obvious flaw in the legislation, because nowadays the importance of a mailbox has grown by an order of magnitude. In fact, this is the key to the digital identity, because through the mail you can change passwords on almost all web services, up to and including payment systems.