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This and some browsing of the public Facebook account will get you into most people's accounts with minimal effort, social engineering is wild and made me lose interest in being a hacker growing up because it was too easy and made me uncomfortable. (I wanted to be mr robot so bad, I was delusional lol)
Remember back in the day when you could get apple users emails through a simple number incrimination in i believe the app store website?
The documentary The Hacker Wars highlighted the issue and if i remember weev went to jail for it. I probably need to rewatch it again.
Also if people are interested in that kind of documentary The Internet's Own Boy is a heartbreakingly excellent story of what the US put Arron Schwartz through.
(This was when facebook contacts would/could get added to yahoo contacts or whatever? IDK I had 100s of emails in there)