Around my house, hacked email accounts were something that happened to other people—relatives with weak passwords, generally, or Dateline story subjects. Until yesterday, when my wife emailed everybody about "gps ,TV LCD,cell phones ..."

She didn't really blast-mail everyone about a spammy electronics site, of course—whoever broke into her Gmail account did. They also changed her signature to incorporate the same poorly-worded pitch, and turned on a vacation auto-responder to