Have you ever received a suspicious email from someone you know? It’s more common than most of us might imagine. That’s because when a hacker steals their victim’s email account, they use it to create more victims by sending out spam messages to users on the stolen account’s address book. It’s a major invasion of privacy, not to mention dangerous.
It is believed someone can take control of your laptop or smartphone camera through an injection of trojan virus or malware from bad websites and spam emails (phishing) that you may have clicked or opened. It is also widely known that several android devices, electronic chips, including internet routers manufactured in China have “backdoor” capabilities to remotely access and control these gadgets.
A massive number of emails of about 808 million with personal information were leaked online when a public MongoDB was kept without a password by an “enterprise email validation service provider” Verifications.io.
