From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: February 14, 2006
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: can I find out who hacked my account?
>
> Leo,
> --------------
> Thanks for your great website - I have found it very useful.
> I recently was a victim of password theft and, following your
> advice, have been able to get control of my email account
> again. My question now is: can I find out who stole it and
> accessed my account in the first place? I have my suspicions
> of course but would like it confirmed. Hotmail have not been
> very forthcoming on this issue - are they able to check who
> it was?
They probably can, BUT for various privacy reasons, they
won't give that information out to just anyone. It typically
takes a court order and law-enforcement being involved for
anything like that to happen.
So if it warrants police investigation, you could try
going that route, but otherwise you're most likely out
of luck.
Thanks for asking,
Leo
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