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How deep does information mining go?

Basically I am a nobody, a civilian, no government ties, no technology ties, just an average guy, so why would someone in Vietnam be trying to hack my email account? A personal email at that. This is ridiculous.

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hartfire

I've heard professors of IT discussing the prevalence of hackers mining for access to bank accounts and any kind of personal information which could be exploited. Trojan emails that trick people into replying to unfamiliar email addresses are one of the most common methods.