Recently while reading digg I came across a post from another blogger who's Gmail account was hacked and he lost control of his domain. The hacker exploited a cross scripting hack in GMail and took transferred his domain name to himself. The crook now wants to ransom the domain for $250.
With your information you can never be too careful. As a web developer I work at trying to avoid situations such as these. I take the latest security developments into account when working on a website. And you can never have enough security.