Many times when accounts are "hacked" its because you responded to a mail or pop up that asks you to confirm your account because Yahoo or hotmail or google are checking for "active" accounts and will "deactivate" the account if you dont confirm your username and password. Many do this without even recognising that the pop up is not legitimate. ive heard or several such cases 

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Tuma Barua <tumabarua@gmail.com> wrote:
Robert,

When an account is hacked, do we say the account provider is hacked? This is very inductive way of looking at security.

ask your friend to increase on his/her password complexity.

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Robert Kuria <robbydeno@googlemail.com> wrote:
Yes, since its an "emergency"


On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Solomon Mburu Kamau <solo.mburu@gmail.com> wrote:
On 13/04/2010, Robert Kuria <robbydeno@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi Good people,
>
> this real on Saturday someone hacked a pall of mine yahoo (in USA) and
> stated chatting with me and told me to send her cuzo (in Kenya) some money
> she was in a fix on mpesa. The rest was history so be on the look.

So you sent money to your friend's 'cousin'?

>
>
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 1:58 PM, MICHAEL AKUNGA
> <michaelakunga@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> So what exactly was your mistake,---------SIMPLE PASSWORD or something

The most common mistake we tend to do is not clearing the privacy
options once we are done with browsing either at a pu blic  or private
( office etc) comps.

>>
>> On 4/13/10, James Maina <jameskmaina@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Guyz
>>>
>>> My hotmail account was last week hacked! I had to get support from
>>> microsoft to get access to it! I'm sure by that time all my info had been
>>> downloaded by some rougue 'Hacker' somewhere in china or nairobi :) My
>>> facebook was also hacked at the same time. I'm advising all you guyz to
>>> change your passwords to complex passwords....and make sure your secret
>>> answers are really hard to guess. And put your alternate email address to
>>> something you use often.
>>>

There is an email I got from someone 'stranded' in the UK and wanted
some US$ 1,200 from me for bailing herself out. When I take a critical
look at the email, I notice it comes from someone by the name Wendi,
who, in my rightful senses, doesn't exist on my email addresses.

Quiet a queer way of getting our hard-earned ca$h!
>>> Tough lesson from a hacked brother, have a great week!
>>>
>>> Best Regards
>>> James
>>>
>>>
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