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They certainly don't need your cookies; they're generated on login. Most likely they would plug the username/email and password into various other sites (facebook, twitter, google, yahoo, hotmail accounts etc) first, and if they gain access, usually they'll just use the account for spam. One of my twitter accounts was accessed without my authorisation using this method, thankfully it was caught very quickly (and I've stopped being so lazy with my passwords!).


Many people will use the same username/email and password across many sites, meaning they can simply plug a whole harvested database into an automated process to do all the work for them; sometimes that will often be doing the actual spamming, other times it may simply verify the details work so they can sell them on. They're simply playing the numbers, sadly it's so a big number who use the same details everywhere (or close enough to it).


At the end of the day, they don't care who 'you' are.


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