I'm not sure about this board, but I know most webforums the PMs can only be accessed by you and you only (or someone with your password and sign in info) and passwords cannot be seen by admins either.

I would assume it is the same here.

The forum i moderate encrypts all of the PM's in the database (basically you could think of it like scrambling the info if someone looks at it, or having it be all ****** like when you type in passwords sometimes). This means that in order for me to find a pm and read it as an admin, I would either have to know your password, or I would have to pretty much be a hacker or programmer of some sort that knew how to get around the encryption.

That wouldn't happen really any more than it would on any other site. And today's forums are pretty darn well secured.

I could be wrong, maybe this board is different but this is pretty much how i see it.