It is very usual case now a days that mail accounts are getting compromised due to various reasons. I feel public awareness on Cyber Security is much needed. Specially in countries like India. Here are few ways to hack mail account which I collected from Google security forum. Hacking Methods There are many ways an account can be compromised/hacked.  A few (but by no means all) of the common ones follow some what in order of frequency used: Phishing * Requesting (often with threats of closing an account) a user to provide login/password information by return e-mail or by redirecting to