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How do people get their email accounts hacked?

Asked by RandomMrdan (7436points) May 28th, 2011

What would someone have to do, to lead them into getting their email account hacked, if anything?

I know a person who is of the opinion that he/she did absolutely nothing wrong to be hacked, and that it was some sort of random occurance.

Where as, I believe, that the person has some sort of maleware, spyware, virus, etc, that led them to getting hacked. Or a wrong click on a pop up by accident, perhaps responding to a spam email by mistake.

So, is it a random occurance, or someones slip of judgement somewhere a long the way?

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