Why would someone want to hack into my email? who could it be? and what could they find if they be competent to?
Answers:
There could be number of reason:-
1> using your address book (containing your friends' email addresses) to distribute spam or unwanted items mails
2> trying to take financial information ( from your edge statements etc) to commit financial fraud.
3> to distribute messages within your identify to your friends to commit some fraud or prank
4>some one spying on you to bring back personal information give or take a few you.
the largest common sense would be to find any email from banks-credit card co.etc. and later something like any piece they can find to reck havoc on you and your contacts.