Ask HN: Why would anyone want to hijack my HN account?

They want your 1 karma! Usually this happens when someone thinks that is their username and then they think the email is not being delivered so they keep trying.

Could simply be someone with the same name. Not many people in the US have my name but someone in another country does, and I see when they try to reset their iphone using my name for the apple account. They have the gmail address. We should trade accounts!