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Getting access to someone's personal email account is often sufficient to gain access to everything else they use, including banks and other financial services,
by ubernostrum 8y ago
Getting access to someone's personal email account is often sufficient to gain access to everything else they use, including banks and other financial services, at least for long enough to clean out some money.
- nailer 8y agoIn some cases - most banks use 2FA, compromising email wouldn't be sufficient to handle that, but a phishing site can do a pass through attack and get both from the user. But the point still stands: getting access to someone's bank account is far more direct way of getting access to their money than their gmail.