Cracking private e-mails and chat histories, and manipulating them by using common editing techniques before using them to extort money and creating distrust among individuals.

Can the government read your private e-mails?

"We wanted to make sure the list couldn't be used for spam and we didn't want people's private e-mails turning up on Web pages."

Or admitting to your boss that you'd read his private e-mails?

Boyfriends and girlfriends sometimes even create identical passwords, and let each other read their private e-mails and texts.

It turns out that the U.S. government has been using the Stored Communications Act (SCA) to read private e-mails without a search warrant.

A hacker is someone who breaks into computers sometimes to read private e-mails and other files.

They might have been private e-mails, but I'd be wary of giving a government contract to someone who doesn't take the time and care to proofread their private correspondence.

We don't admit to breaking up with someone because of his looks, or that we've read our boss's private e-mails.

That was not, however, something that they mentioned in anything other than private e-mails.