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Palin's Yahoo Account Hacked

Posted by Kara Reeder Sep 18, 2008 9:43:52 AM

U.S. Republican vice-presidential candidate and Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has certainly attracted a lot of attention of late, including from hackers.

 

BBC News reports that a hacking group called "Anonymous" was able to break into Palin's personal Yahoo account and post several messages and family photos from her inbox. Screenshots were posted on Wikileaks.org, but the site is only intermittently available this morning. (We have yet to be able to access it.)

 

Currently, there is an investigation into whether Palin used personal e-mail accounts to conduct state business. According to The Washington Post, images of the Yahoo inbox are littered with the names of Palin aides using both official and private e-mail addresses.

 

Surprise, surprise, the Yahoo account has been canceled.

Add a comment Leave a comment on this blog post.
Sep 18, 2008 4:45 PM Guest Jeff  says:

The fact that Sarah Palin was using a Yahoo! account is almost neglectable in light of the fact that Anonymous members were illegally cracking the email account and deliberately spread private and government information on the internet, on top of all endangering the safety of Palin's family. No "public interest" exists for this, and their doing was just plain illegal. Anonymous is known for illegal and harassing actions for a long time.

 

Article:

http://www.nolanchart.com/article4803.html

 

Fox11 News on Anonymous:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNO6G4ApJQY

 

Anonymous response:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFjU8bZR19A

 

Another Fox11 report:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYH-5ke_bOU

 

Anonymous documentary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbwNyKXux70

http://www.anonymous-exposed.org

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