E-Mail Question

My question involves criminal law for the state of: Florida.

Here is the complete story.

Last night it seemed that my account was hacked to get into one of my PC video games. The hacker appeared to change all of my personal information in the e-mail to prevent me from retrieving my e-mail password through Hotmail's lost password options. That includes where I live, a secret question and answer, they also removed or changed a alternate e-mail address to also retrieve a new password.

I don't know who did this and I have no clue where the person lives. If I reported this to the police would they be able to do something? Could they contact MSN and pull IP addresses and figure out who did this and do something about it? I think hacking into an e-mail is violating privacy.

At the moment I am waiting for MSN Hotmail to validate my identity to my hacked e-mail account. They even asked me for my ISP and who was my provider so they must have the persons ISP who hacked my account right?

Thanks for all your help if I get a reply.

You can file a police report; in my experience, odds are the police will do nothing. They don't have the expertise or manpower to deal with this type of thing. But maybe your police are different.

You can try filing a civil suit and issuing subpoenas for the information. That's rather tricky, will cost you some money, and may not give you information that's all that useful. You can hire a lawyer to do that for you, but then you're talking about paying some real money up front.