The most common password
Do you know the most commonly used email password? 123456! Yes, this was found in 2009, when over 10,000 hotmail passwords were exposed online. Today, however, most websites have several rules to be followed when creating a password.
How many email accounts are there?
There are billions of people worldwide, but not everyone has access to the Internet and emails. So, can you guess how many email accounts are there worldwide? There are over 3.17 billion email accounts worldwide! That’s greater than the population of most countries in the world.
Spam alert!
Call them junk or spam, these malicious emails can be found aplenty in all email accounts. They constitute nearly 55% of all emails received. This explains why you get more spam mails than regular emails in a day.
A mail from space
The first email from space arrived in 1991. The crew if STS-43 Atlantis used AppleLink software on a Macintosh Portable to transmit the message.
Computer or mobile?
With the emergence of smartphones, emails, which were once read only on computers, began following people wherever they went. Today, over 66% of emails are read on mobile devices.
Simpson’s email account was hacked!
Homer Simpson, a famous animated character that features in the show The Simpsons, was caught in a soup when his email account was hacked. A Simpsons writer used to reply to messages in-character from the ID chunkylover53@aol.com. This was until the sheer volume of emails became too high to respond to, in 2009.
Who’s behind the spam?
If you get spam mails, it means it is generated somewhere. Did you know that the United States was once the highest spam generator in the world? It is in close contest with China, which is currently in number one spot. Following these two countries is Russia, at number three.
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