QUESTION
Is breaking into someone's email acct illegal?
Asked on May 22nd, 2013 on Business Law - Florida
More details to this question:
I have a personal Yahoo acct that I used to reg/host a domain from. It was for my previous employer who has since hacked this acct twice and changed the password. Illegal?
1 ANSWER
In New York there is a statute prohibiting hacking into someone else's email account. I would be surprised if Florida didn't have a similar statute. However, in your question you indicate that the Yahoo account was "for [your] previous employer", so it's not clear to me if your former employer has some sort of claim to rights in the Yahoo account.
Answered on May 23rd, 2013 at 12:38 PM