A recently posted video on YouTube teaches viewer's how to hack into someone's email account in just 15 minutes. The video showed a group of volunteers follow an online "man in the middle technique" tutorial. It showed them learn in just fifteen minutes how to hack into a computer network. It went on to show them using the technique to obtain each other's login details and passwords.
The experiment was carried out by the internet security company the CPP Group. The experiment used volunteers from numerous different backgrounds including a baker and a retiree.

To date there are an estimated 20,000 videos available on YouTube alone that teach viewers the basics of hacking social media profiles, email accounts, smartphones and PayPal accounts.

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