Impossible to be sure but very unlikely they've been "monitoring"

If they know the password they've probably put a password cracker on and got in. You have to assume every email in your account has been read by them so to the extent you have sensitive information there: passwords to other sites in email, financial, medical or other sensitive information, yes they know it.

I personally would - right now - do the following, in order:

1) change the email password to a strong hard to guess password. Lots of advice online on how to choose one of those.

2) change the password on all your online accounts which *might* have been compromised in the same way, OR for which you use the same password as your email.

3) report this attempt at extortion to the police. But only *after* you've done both of the above things.

They are claiming to have your web browsing history. Very, very unlikely that they actually do. Sometimes they'll claim to have hacked into your webcam and again it's very unlikely they actually have.

Posted By: Old Man, Oct 22, 12:34:09