E-Mail Hacking Sarah Palin
So it happened again. Another email account broken into. This time it wasn’t the glitterati – read Paris Hilton - that got stung. Nor was it an office staffer such as what Kenneth Kwak did at the Department of Education a couple years ago - see www.//news.cnet.com/2100-7350_3-6071928.html. But instead it was a Vice-Presidential candidate’s email account. Governor Sarah Palin ruefully used an external email service to send emails out of her gov.palin@yahoo.com account.
What she exposed was her own personal and family information as well as emails related to the Alaskan governor’s work. When you use a public email service such as yahoo.com you run the risk of public exposure. A hacker can employ password recovery techniques to gain access to private email.
In the case of Sarah Palin, that is exactly what has happened. Or at least that is what happened according to a post on a 4chan.org message board by someone claiming to be the person responsible for breaking into Sarah Palin’s email account.
This person’s account of how he broke into Sarah Palin’s account can be found at www.michellemalkin.com/2008/09/17/the-story-behind-the-palin-e-mail-hack...
I will warn you that there is profanity on that posting. The hacker used information found on Wikipedia and Google to discover Sarah Palin’s birthday and zip code. The hacker used this information to pass through the first level of security – the username/password level. The second level consisted of a security question about where Sarah Palin met her spouse. The hacker did some research and made an educated guess and voila he was in as Sarah Palin. Read the rest of this article
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According to this recent
According to this recent release from CNN, David Kernell, the son of a member of the House of Representatives, Mike Kernell, allegedly reset the password and accessed the personal e-mail account of vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin. He also allegedly read the contents, took a screenshot of her directory, and got into her address book information. Her address book contained the contact information including cell phone numbers of family members as well as birthdates and other information. He also then allegedly posted all of this including the password on a public website. After turning himself in, he pled not guilty. Kernell faces up to 5 years in prison, 3 years of probation and supervision after release, and up to $250,000 in fines. Think about this: to pay that down, he would have to take almost 200 payday loans at the maximum allowed amount of $1,500.Post Courtesy of Personal Money Store
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