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I think my boyfriend/girlfriend/spouse is cheating on me. I want to into their email/instant message/Facebook/other account and find out what he/she/it is doing behind my back. Can you help me? Can you get me the password for.@hotmail.com/yahoo.com/facebook.com? This person’s been saying really bad things about me and I want to hack in and teach him/her/it a lesson. I’ve lost the password for.@hotmail.com. Could you please find it and send it to.@hotmail.com?

It’s really my account. A family member has passed away, and I’d like to retrieve whatever was in his/her email account before it gets deleted for lack of use.

But I don’t have the password. Can you get it for me?

These are oversimplifications of many variations. People want to hack into other people’s accounts for a variety of reasons. Some, such as the last one, sound perfectly legitimate. Others, not so much. And others are just blatant attempts at theft, harassment, or revenge. What’s really scary is that I get these requests every day. Just no For the record, the answer is no.

I cannot and will not retrieve a password for you. I cannot and will not hack an account for you. I cannot and will not help you hack some account. I have many reasons for taking this position, but the biggest reason is very simple: Hacking into someone else’s account without their permission is wrong. I can’t make it any clearer than that.

Hacking into an account destroys trust. (As it should, in my opinion.) Revenge is stupid and childish. You could be lying to me. If you pose as an account owner, I have no way to confirm it. Legitimate requests. What if you have a.

However, being wrong is not the only reason for my position. It’s unethical. It’s probably illegal. It’s likely immoral. Hacking into an account destroys trust. (As it should, in my opinion.). Revenge is stupid and childish.

You could be lying to me. If you pose as an account owner, I have no way to confirm it.

Legitimate requests What if you have a legitimate request? I still cannot help you. I do not have access to the information needed to prove you have the right to get into the account, and I do not have the technology to retrieve or reset your password. Only the service does. Only Microsoft can reset a Hotmail or other Microsoft account password. Only Google can do it for Google accounts, and only Facebook can do it for Facebook.

You get the idea. Go directly to the service in question, and only the service in question, for all your account recovery options.

Legitimate requests with no available support. What if you have a legitimate request, but the service involved provides no means to act on it? That’s typical for free services. All I can say is, you get what you pay for. If there is no supported way to get legitimate access to the account, or the supported ways don’t work, you can’t get access to the account. You are out of luck. If it was your account you’re trying to hack back into, you’ve probably lost the account forever.

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Anyone who says they can reset or retrieve your password for you should not be trusted. In an extreme case, these services may listen to lawyers and officers of the court, if you have the legal standing to go that route. You might try that approach if it’s worth it to you. The real solution There are several ways to avoid getting yourself into this situation. to ensure it doesn’t get hacked. so you can get back into it should something happen.

the information in your account so as not to lose anything important if you ever do lose access to the account. with real support available when problems arise. Hacking is never the answer Be it your account or someone else’s, hacking is never the answer. And don’t even bother asking me. A note on comments Because of the subject matter, this article attracts comment from individuals offering their “hacking services”.

We proactively remove those comments within 24-48 hours, but if you see such a comment, ignore it. Chances are it’s a scam. Even if it isn’t, it’s at least unethical, and probably illegal. I am a member of a social anxiety forum and I actually saw a thread where someone was boasting of hacking into her bully’s Facebook and Twitter accounts.

She had intended to delete the data from these accounts and generally ruin the bully’s life. There were other members egging her on and encouraging her to do damage to the accounts. I stepped in and told her that what she was doing was illegal and that she could get into trouble with the law if she was reported. She did not seem to be at all concerned with her behaviour and was not worried about getting found out about it. A moderator then locked the thread on the basis that it was encouraging illegal activity. Hi Leo, I have been reading you for what seems like many years.

I just saw the one about “How can I hack into someone’s account” and of course I agree wholeheartedly with your response. This is just a comment or story for you. My wife’s younger brother just passed away after 10 years of being housebound due to arthritis and other illnesses. During this time he bought a lot of electronic gear including probably 5 computers and 5 guitars, TV’s etc. When we went to the funeral his wife was offering us all kinds of stuff including iPads etc. He had new laptops and tablets still in the boxes.

Even a flatscreen TV!! I think he must have had lots of money and she said he was adicted to the shopping channel. We would not take anything because we feel she needs time to think about what she is doing. But another relative did accept a new laptop. The deceased had used a thumbprint to lock the laptops he had.

So now his brother has a new laptop which he desperately needed but can’t get into. I’m sure he can take it to a professional and have it unlocked.

But if I were to put myself in that position, I don’t think I would want to see another persons personal life in their laptop. I feel like I would be invading their privacy even though they are dead. The thumbprint was there for a reason. Just my feeling. Thanks for all the great tips over the years and please keep it up. I lost my Yahoo Mail account when my ISP dumped Yahoo in favor of AOL.

The instructions for transferring emails to AOL were very easy, just click a button and everything would move over. And indeed it did work. The emails in inbox and the older ones that had been sorted into files were received. I notified my correspondents of the change of address. So far so good. What they neglected to mention was that they had made no provision for emails that arrived afterwards and that the operation of transferring the existing emails permanently locked you out of your account. On the Yahoo site I was able to see a count of emails being received without any ability to do anything about it.

Before clicking that button you were supposed to set up forwarding with Yahoo but AOL did not bother to mention that. And since my Yahoo Mail account was paid for through my ISP there was no support to contact.

I’d very much like to meet a hacker who could show me how to hack into my old Yahoo account just to set up forwarding and retrieve the dozens of emails that have arrived since I was locked out. Be careful what you wish for. I answer it that was, because there is so much spam offering to hack accounts, I want to take to opportunity to warn anyone reading this that these offers to hack are a scam.

It’s rare to the point of nonexistent to find a hacker who can hack email accounts, Facebook, or other major websites. If it were possible, you’d read about massive hacking of those sites all the time. Everyone who has their accounts hacked are either hacked by people they know who have access to their devices or know enough to guess their passwords, or people who use short or easily guessable passwords. We are constantly deleting comments on articles which offer to hack. I’m just warning anyone who might see those comments that they are scams.

In the Gmail settings you can set up someone who will get a notice if you do not access your account for three months. It will give that person full access to your account so that they can download your email, etc. When they finish, the account will either be deleted or can be deleted, I forget which. I set that up a while ago, when prompted to do so by the Google Security Review. I think this is a good idea and should relieve some of the genuine anxieties out there. Just be sure to update this if you change executors.

I’m old enough now to have dealt several times with getting into the computer(s) of people who died. It’s an interesting, if emotional, puzzle. Just last month I helped a friend whose wife died leaving a locked iPhone, two iPads, and a laptop.

Fortunately he remembered her main email account password. With just that account I was able to reset passwords for other accounts including the Apple ID.

The toughest was the iPhone which had been locked after too many failed passcode attempts. Fortunately there had been an iCloud backup and once I recovered the Apple ID I was able to restore it. Having the iPhone working let me get into other accounts that used two-factor authentication.

As part of all this I gained access to her Facebook account and assigned myself as the legacy contact. I then requested “Memorialization” where Facebook changes the page to be “In Memory Of” Out of this I realize how important it is to ensure that SOMEONE knows enough to get into your accounts. I turn 70 at my next birthday and this is an issue for more and more people I know. This is what I have done. Create a document which is kept in a safe place, but where a family member can find it.

Contains key info to access my PCs, my online accounts and my financial accounts, including how top gain physical access to my safe deposit box. If kept confidential by all parties, such documents can help preserve access if something happens where I can’t tell people how to get in.

This should be part of a Will or Last Wishes document for every family member, but no one else seems to have done this in my family. My Dad had a little black book, but his was the last generation to keep a hard copy. Leave a reply: Before commenting please:. Read the article.

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