Not at all an answer to your question, but being picky, I guess that it is needed anyway to separate facts from hypothesis:
Facts:
Ejohnson77 wrote:
Victim was recently divorced and had accessed his email account from ex's mother's home in the past.
Basic hypothesis:
Ejohnson77 wrote:
Evidently his username and password were saved on her computer due to checking "remember username and password."
Basic further hypothesis:
The same ex's mother's computer was used to unlawfully access the MSN account.
Alternative hypothesis #1:
Victim had the password of that account scribbled on a piece of paper that he/she kept in first drawer of the desk or together with credit cards in wallet/purse and that may well have been accessed, at least once, by the ex.
Alternative hypothesis #2:
Base hypothesis is correct but a software was used to extract/unencrypt/etc. the MSN account password making it available as plain text (and as such made re-usable by *any* computer connected to the internet)
In both alternatives the "basic further hypothesis" becomes then a mere possibility.
jaclaz
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