Truth about Password Hacking/Cracking
There are a few real ways to hack into online accounts, and there are many fake ways you will see all over the internet. Most of these fake ways tell you something like “you need to send an email to [email protected] your username/password in the subject line” which is some fake Yahoo account owned by some guy that just stole your password.
I’ll outline some common myths and things that don’t work, then i’ll tell you exactly how I did it and you can too.
Things that people think work, but really dont:
Brute Forcing
Brute force is basically a term for a method of “forcing” combinations of passwords against an account login and is usually performed by a software program to automate the process (doing it manually would be just plain stupid). Sometimes these programs use a dictionary file of common words to guess the password, or they will literally try every combination of letters, numbers, and characters possible. The problem, and why this method is completely useless, is that almost every service like yahoo, hotmail, myspace, etc does not allow repeated attempts on a particular login. Brute forcing is as old as computers are and it’s easily prevented. Even if there was not this limit – the possibility of guessing the password with a dictionary file is extremely high, and attempting every combination of a password can sometimes take years or decades at estimates.
Magical “codes” – known as Exploits
Exploits are most often specially formatted URLs or codes that take advantage of a vulnerability/flaw in order to cause unintended behavior, such as accessing account passwords or private information. MySpace itself has been the victim of a large number of exploits that have caused celebrity profiles like Alicia Keys and even Tom to be hacked. While these do work, they don’t work for long and very seldom shared with others when discovered. Thinking you will be able to find an exploit or “code” online that will help you hack email accounts is a waste of time. There has not been any Yahoo or Gmail exploits in the past 2 or 3 years, so don’t get your hopes up. Hotmail is a different story :D.
Hacking Services
The biggest risk of them all is using a hacking service. While most of these services cost anywhere from $200 or more, many of them are just software products that are as useful as a one legged man in an ass kicking contest. Hacking into a private email is illegal everywhere privacy is enforced, so you can expect that no legitimate company is going to offer an actual hacking service. In fact, sometimes you can even be blackmailed into providing more money or the hacker will notify your target of your evil attempts. You can’t trust other people with sensitive information like this, so just DON’T DO IT.
Other Myths and Truths You Probably Didn’t Know
Changing your password often will protect you: MYTH
Use different passwords for everything will help protect you: TRUE
Simply reading an email could cause your account to be hacked: MYTH
Using a long password with numbers and letters will protect you better: MYTH
Hacking is done by geeky nerds with incredible technical knowledge: MYTH
A 13 year old hacked Paris Hilton’s cell phone records: TRUE
The best way to Hack an Account Password?
It’s simple, it’s called Social Engineering. Social engineering is a crafty art form of tricking a person into divulging information, whether they know it or not. A more common form of this is called Spy Software, which monitors a computer for information. To hack a password, you just need the right tools and to be sneaky with your attempt. The perfect tool for this is called SniperSpy. It has been incredibly usefull for me and helped me deal with my first cheating wife. It’s remotely deployable – meaning it doesn’t need to be installed manually by you at all. I simply sent the SniperSpy module to my wife via email and told her it was a security patch for Windows that she needed to install. After that, i was able to use the features of SniperSpy to see everything she did on her computer.
Be prepared for what you might find though. The fact that it is remotely installable is something i haven’t found in any other product, and i know many of us do not have physical access to the person’s computer. Now since I paid for the laptop she uses and we were married at the time, I think it was legal for me to do so. Installing spy software on a computer you do not own is probably illegal, but i’m really not a lawyer so please understand my statements are not legal advice. This is hands down the best way to catch a cheater, gather information, or basically hack a password. You will gain access to emails and other information with SniperSpy, it just works.
Update: You may also want to read our full review of Sniper Spy to find out if it’s right for you!
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Mr.Anonymouse,
You might want to avoid providing advice when you are incorrect.
1. XSS vulnerabilities are the same as exploits, in which i explained in the article.
2. As far as password length and brute forcing the hash, you need to have the password hash of the account to brute force it in the first place.
3. Guessing a password isn’t considered hacking. That’s like me guessing your name and calling it hacking.
4. Finally, the advice you gave to sophia.. horrid. Telling her to download a trojan is the dumbest thing you could do because the vagueness of that will only lead her to infect her own computer. It’s like telling your 4yr old sister to defuse a bomb.
courtney, guessing a password is considered hacking.
to jake: you might be able to retrieve that password back by downloading an uneraser.
to sophia:
to get his password send him a trojan. bind the trojan with a file (any file in most cases). they’re called binders. get him to open it on the computer he uses the most. viola axcess granted.
if he’s not tech savy, then look around on the email settings that he uses. try to forward (& leave a copy) of all the emails that he gets. so even if he changes his password, while not on the infected computer you will get all of the emails he gets.
And finally to the author of this acticle.
Changing your password often will protect you: MYTH
Use different passwords for everything will help protect you: TRUE
Simply reading an email could cause your account to be hacked: TRUE
Using a long password with numbers and letters will protect you better: TRUE
Simply reading an email message that has a XSS vulnerability on it can compromise your account. Even viewing this article I’m risking giving my cookies up.
Using a long password with numbers and letters will protect you better: myth. Of course using a stronger password would be better, if someone tried to brute force a hash that was really long compared to like two letters. Which password do you think would take longer to crack?
I just thought I would share some of my knowledge.
bye.
I am really hoping that someone might be able to help me. My partner has just left for London. I am certain that he is cheating on me and I simply need to know so that I can move on with my life. I have tried every method online to try and discover his password which he recently changed which has left me even more suspicious. Any advice is welcomed.
i need my bf password because he has been writing to girls on myspace and i want to know if he is still doing it so that i can move on wit my life…”
what you do is you access his email which is fairly simple because all you need to know is the answer to the secert question and or his username then you go to his myspace and click forgot password they will simply send you a link to his email click on that link and WHAM your in like SIN
“i need my bf password because he has been writing to girls on myspace and i want to know if he is still doing it so that i can move on wit my life…”
is he not allowed to “write” to girls on myspace??? do you feel betrayed? yeah he really sounds like a cheater!
move on girl move on…
i need my bf password because he has been writing to girls on myspace and i want to know if he is still doing it so that i can move on wit my life…
My wife is training right now with the military and I strongly suspect her of cheating. I know she has been talking to her friends about it because I used to have myspace IM pop up with her login automatically before she left, so i got the messages. I accidentally deleted the password the other day and I have tried every guess I can think of for it but to no avail. Please let me know if there is a solution to this problem…that doesnt spend money. Oh and also she never uses the same computer. Is there anything i can do?
Ok I need help, my man is hesitant ot log into my computer now, I am sure he is aware that he could get cought cheating if he gives me any info on my computer but he has logged in a couple times to his myspace, his info was not saved on my coputer that I can find, he is out of town at the moment and I would really like to know if he is cheating on me, is there someway I can find out how to retrieve info on my comp from his log in or find out his password for his myspace, which is private and i can not axcess. Please help.
ya hacking is pretty much bullshit. do it the old fashioned way GUESS. i know 5 of my bf’s passwords and NONE of them are the same, so that makes it dificult to hack his sn’s and myspace/ emails
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