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Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin found that she is just as vulnerable in cyber realms as any of us, when hackers wrested control of her Yahoo e-mail id. The hackers released five screenshots of her personal e-mails and photographs.
Both her campaign manager and the FBI confirmed the news of her account being hacked, which began circulating after the appearance of the leaked screenshots on WikiLeaks. You will not be able to have a look at the screenshots yourself, in case your peeping faculties have been roused by the news, as they have been taken down.
The hackers are said to have only counted on their social engineering skills – by collecting or guessing personal information required for password recovery – and Yahoo’s flimsy, lax password-recovery process for breaking into her account. All said, the hack has exposed Palin’s inexpedient habit of conducting state business using a personal e-mail account.
According to Knoxnews, State Rep. Mike Kernell admitted that investigators had quizzed his 20-year old son David Kernell about the hack. Kernell is a Democrat!
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Devo85x
September 21, 2008 at 5:20pm
At least this proves that in america you can litteraly be anything you want... a dumbass can become a canidate for VP...
hammerfell
September 21, 2008 at 4:31am
haha wow looks like someone needs a cookie or a hug.... look at this, people are debating politics in maxpc articles. what is this world coming too..... honestly i think that it's no big deal she had her email hacked. heck nothing was found so that's even a plus for her doubters. in all honesty she should get a better way of keeping things secure if shes our vice president but i think it'll be easy enough for her to get someone to show her what to do. no biggy. just news.... not necessarily good or bad... just news... now if obama got hacked it would be a different story ^_^ jk i would probably care less hah
graviton
September 20, 2008 at 1:25pm
Beastman I don't know where you get off telling people exactly what they can and can't say on their own website, knock it off and shut your yap, if you don't like it then leave. Their house, their rules. I think its very accurate to make a statement regarding the insecure nature of email such as yahoo which is techie. Yes, nothing illegal was found in her email, however it is against the law to use email when you are a public servant conducting official business.
Darth Ninja
September 20, 2008 at 11:37am
Well it looks like article angered one republican already *cough* sixfivebeastman *cough*.
I have to say, using yahoo for gov biz, she had it coming.
Also the wiki-leaks page is still up: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/VP_contender_Sarah_Palin_hacked____________________
DarthNinja
sixfivebeastman
September 20, 2008 at 9:25am
MaximumPC is not a political magazine. As such, would you mind keeping the political crap in your personal blogs or on another website?
Also, you say that, "the hack has exposed Palin's inexpedient habit of conducting state business using a personal e-mail acount." Oh dear god, not that! Such a scandal! If anything illegal or even "shady" had been found by the hackers it would be all over the news, but no such e-mails were found. Why do you insist on trying to create a scandal where there is none? Leave the political commentary and coverage to the morons with their own political sites and stations. This is a tech magazine, and it should stay that way. Let's keep the other crap out of this arena, capice?
xveganx
September 20, 2008 at 8:30am
If she is going to use private email accounts for state business, just so that she can shield herself from accountability and conduct business in secret, she got what she deserved.
