Email Hacking

Whenever i talk about hacking ,everyone ask me is can u hack my email account??? For all those who live in myths of hacking today i am going to publish what is email hacking actually? How you can hack email?? and last but not least how we can protect our accounts so that they don't get hacked by any hacker??

Email:- Electronic mail which you can send within microseconds from one part of world to another, works on SMTP( Simple mail Transfer protocol). This is protocol of application layer in OSI model.Email goes through various steps in its way. And on each step it is encrypted strongly. so it is generally not possible to crack an email while it is travelling.

Email Hacking:- When it is encrypted and we cant hack it on its way to destination then how we can do it? Email HackingRefers to hack into or get access to someone's personal or business email accounts with an unethical manner or without his/her permission using some non genuine way.
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Some key point to keep in mind while talking about E mail Hacking:-
1. No software can hack email for you
2. Never pay $100 or $200 to any service just to hack an account for you they are usually scams.
3. When you download any software for hacking email there is always some malicious material attached to it like RATs or Trojans. So never Trust them

Now what are the ways left to hack an email or email account:-Sure, you can hack email but not with any software or some service. You need to run your brain in a   extra smart way. You know that  to hack an email you should know following things:-
1. email service used by victim.
2. His email account.
3. His Password.
First two factors are easy to get about the victim . You need some way so that you can reach upto the password. Now I am going to provide some directions so that you can get into victim's account.

1. Secret Questions:-
If you know your victim well its not difficult for you to crack his secret question and change his password to hack his account.
How it works??
1. Open email service of victim.Lets it be Gmail

2. Enter Username of victim and hit " can't access my account".

3.Page will open like this.

4. Enter username Again and submit.

5. You will be redirected to captcha page like below for security reasons.

6. Enter captcha shown below and continue, Either you will get password reset link to secondary email. If there is no secondary email provided already , you choose verify identity ,answer the secret question.

 You will be asked with secret question put by victim at the time of his account creation. Now if you know your victim, you can answer easily and quickly to his secret answer. And if you don't know him well or not sure about answer of  secret question then you can make him him to answer it with your social engineering power.

7. Enter answer of secret question asked. In this demo ques was" What was your first teacher's name" and suppose answer is"abc".

8. Hit Continue.

9. Now you may be asked to change your current password and you will be safely landed to victim's email account.

10. Thus you successfully hacked an email account.'