This is stupid. Those guys are breaking e-mail accounts using exploits that were probably dumped on an IRC channel.

That city is renowned for cybercrime, but if you actually go beyond the media frenzy you find out that the vast majority are phishing and fake ebay accounts. They even brag about how they fool other people into buying fictional cars - I know this because I met some of these people.

There are no true hackers in HackersVille, only some people - journalists - who have almost no idea about how computers and the internet works but insist on refreshing this story every year.