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If I gain access to such an account, I change the password to something that no one will ever break. Maybe besides the rightful owner by some account recovery m
by danbruc 12y ago
If I gain access to such an account, I change the password to something that no one will ever break. Maybe besides the rightful owner by some account recovery mechanism I am unable to disable. But multiple people having access seems a very unlikely scenario to me. Why would you share the credentials (and risk getting locked out yourself)?
- showerst 12y agoThis suggests that they gained access by some mechanism other than having the legit password.
- danbruc 12y agoIn this case GMX would have to have a huge security hole that is not widely known, otherwise mass exploitation would probably quickly trigger alarms. Not impossible but seems also unlikely to me because it must be known to at least a couple of people and I would imagine that the knowledge about such a security hole would spread quite quickly once more than a handful of people know about it. And an inside job by several different people at more or less the same point in time seems unlikely, too. So the most likely scenario to me is still that only a single person broke the password and the multiple-people-have-access-story is just FUD.
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- psykovsky 12y agoGaining access to such email accounts is something you often do?