It's not only cyberthieves who are hacking into personal emails, people with grievances against family, friends, girlfriends and boyfriends are getting into it, too. A company called YourHackerz.com will provide passwords to a person's email accounts for $100.

An article in the Washington Post said services like YourHackerz.com--with clever names like "piratecrackers.com" and "hackmail.net"--are plentiful. They have little trouble hacking into email networks. And, experts say, little can be done to stop it.

"This is an important point that people haven't grasped," Peter Eckersley, of Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco, told Washington Post. "We've been using email for years, and it's been insecure all that time...If you have any hacker who is competent and spends the time and targets you, he's going to get you."

Although federal law prohibits hacking into email, if you are caught, it's only a misdemeanor. So while companies have plenty to lose with hacks, personal accounts are not immune from cybercrime either.

For more information on personal hack attacks:
- check out this Washington Post article

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