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by JoachimSchipper 4863 days ago
This is less dangerous than your mom losing a folder with all of that stuff in the train. Which would be worrying, but not "in a panic" worrying. As others have said, relax.

(In case this is the question you were asking: there's no reliable way to hack into any of the major e-mail providers that I know of. Getting access to another's account is highly unethical, not to mention illegal; it's unlikely to reduce the number of problems you have, especially if the risk is less "caught for being a foreign spy" and more "identity theft".)

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> there's no reliable way to hack into any of the major e-mail providers

I'd argue that the "forgotten password" forms on most major e-mail providers is a trivial way to hack them.

In particular if you can research someone. Like if you can cross-check the e-mail address in google, then find a Facebook, which gives you more info which you can leverage again for yet more...

Obviously unethical and illegal. But reliable.

Hardly reliable, not everyone puts everything on the web/Facespace.

I deleted that paragraph before posting for a reason; you may or may not want to consider that next time.