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Old 10-29-2010, 07:15 PM  
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Desperate chinese people.
They can work an unlimited amount of hours in front of a computer. So they will crack many passwords, even those we consider to be safe.

But there's also next step, how secure is her firewall? Does she surf the net as an administrator? Because if you do, all one has to do is try a few random IP addresses, wait for a response and then break in there.

Facebook, Twitter and other shit like that, does she use the same password twice? Did she click on somethig "funny" someone who shared something out of the ordinary? Has she gotten strange emails from other friends? I have two family friends with a bit elderly parents in the US and they have both experienced the same. They were on Hotmail and Gmail.

People who use the same username and password at multiple places are the easiest, because you just try to break the password at all the sites together. Or people who select silly or publicly available answer to their security questions.

Might also not be her at all. It could be one of her friends who are infected, but has your mom in their addressbook. So the trojan/virus sends itself out, but disguise itself like if it came from your mom, to make it harder to trace/catch. So if your and her address are either both stored at this infected persons addressook or you could both have been addressed in an email before or somehow linked like that before. Then the trojan/virus will do it's best to avoid detection.

When I was a senior in High School I hacked the computer network at school so the administrators had to swith to 25 character passwords and before I graduated they had also totally gone over to personal USB identification keys.

If there is a will, there is a way.
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