"E-mail hacking services prove hard to prosecute"
Your email password can be had for a little as $33! The two good points that this article makes are:

• The way computers work is counter intuitive to people, when a pop up asks if you want to accept an unauthorized certificate, it is asking "Do you want to be hacked?"
• There is less computer security than what we want (Peter Eckersley, staff technologist for Electronic Frontier Foundation), the more complexity, the less security

AND, it is only a misdemeanor if nothing is done with the hacked info. So careful what you have in the inbox, access to it can be cheaply purchased.