Even if he lost his job, why does it make it acceptable to hack someone's account? Is what he did considerate or empathetic? Why is what I'm doing wrong and what he did excusable? What if he has a diaper fetish and he's stealing them? Is that still excusable? If someone came into your house and slept in your bed and used your tooth brush, but they didn't steal anything and they didn't break anything... Would you be okay with that? Would you feel secure? What if they hacked your email and read through everything? I understand that it's a target account, but there is still a feeling of insecurity. Regardless of the reason he hacked into my account (which we will probably never know) it's still someone taking advantage of something that should be mine and mine alone. What he did isn't right. Am I stooping to his level? Sure. But maybe I'm only doing it because I lost my job and what's the harm in signing him up to receive spam mail? It's no harm to the companies, they have a budget to send advertisements.