Alaska Governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin received a harsh lesson in the relative security, or rather lack thereof, of commercial e-mail accounts Wednesday. The GOP hopeful for VP discovered her personal Yahoo e-mail account, on which she allegedly conducted official state business as governor of Alaska, had been hacked by activists associated with the group Anonymous. The break-in was reported by Wikileaks.org Tuesday after hackers gained access to Palin’s [email protected] account and provided contents from that account to the Web site.
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What Palin's Hacked E-Mail Reveals: System Insecurity
Posted by: Walaika Haskins September 18, 2008 11:27 AMAlaska Governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin received a harsh lesson in the relative security, or rather lack thereof, of commercial e-mail accounts Wednesday. The GOP hopeful for VP discovered her personal Yahoo e-mail account, on which she allegedly conducted official state business as governor of Alaska, had been hacked by activists associated with the group Anonymous. The break-in was reported by Wikileaks.org Tuesday after hackers gained access to Palin’s [email protected] account and provided contents from that account to the Web site.