How do hackers brute force or dictionary attack your email password? I've put the wrong password in too many times and hotmail blocked me.
>>61780833
They get a hold of the password hash, so they can bruteforce it offline.
>>61780850
How do they do that?
>>61780857
They download it
>>61780857
Depends, more often than not some developer has forgotten to sanitise database input, so they're able to use SQL injection to get it out.
>>61780882
So its not something a script kiddy could do?
>>61780877
From where?
>>61780937
it's exactly the sort of thing that a skid would / can do.