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Hacker Keeps resetting my Live email password.

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btw have you check your pc too? does it clean from virus trojan etc
so no matter what you do it always return again n again
 
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Odds are almost 0% unless it is someone in his house that is on his LAN (or accessing it wirelessly if he is using a wireless router, but this still presents quite a challenge for SSL transmissions).
You could potentially access (hack into) his ISPs systems and pull packets (and have to decrypt them if sent through SSL (https)), but no one who has that kind of access to resources would use it to grab a Steam account to just play his games.
They'd more likely be hacking into world bank accounts, corporate servers, governmental agencies or Mussels' pr0n collection.

Arp poising is simple stuff to do also a dns poison ... that person could do a man in the middle and act like a gateway
 
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Someone else also mentioned it could be a phishing attempt. There are a couple of warnings on some MMORPG forums regarding false e-mails claiming to have reset passwords. The link contained then proceeds to go to a login page where you enter your username and password.
Maybe i mis-read some of the posts, but the only thing you have been receiving is password re-set e-mails, right?

Edit - NVM, i didn't read correctly, he actually got hold of your E-Mail passwords. They weren't something easy to guess were they?
 
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