Sarah Palin Hacked!
filed in Internet, Privacy on Sep.18, 2008,
Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account was Hacked on Tuesday by an activist group known as ‘anonymous’, according to a Web site that publishes leaked documents alleging government and corporate misconduct.
Anonymous gained access to Palin’s Yahoo e-mail address on Tuesday evening and gave the information to Wikileaks, according to the Web site. Data shared included screen shots of Palin’s inbox, two e-mails, her address book and several family photos.
Though the Yahoo account, gov.palin@yahoo.com as well as the unrelated gov.sarah@palin.com, have since been deleted, Wikileaks has made the data available on its Web site via zip files.
The screenshots feature a July e-mail between Palin and Alaska Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell, an e-mail sent to Palin staffer Ivy Frye from an anonymous member telling her that Palin’s password had been changed, captures of Palin’s inbox, and an e-mail from Amy McCorkell, who serves on the Governor’s Advisory Board on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse.
Where is the security?
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September 18th, 2008 on 8:12 am
I think it’s important to remember that (regardless of your political leanings) Sarah Palin is the victim of a criminal act, and these hackers should not be applauded for breaking into someone else’s email account.
Interestingly, Sarah Palin isn’t the first public figure to have had her email hacked. Paris Hilton suffered a similar fate back in 2005.
Her mistake was making the name of her pet chihuahua the secret question/answer to reset her Sidekick’s password. Ooops!
I’ve made a video comparing Sarah Palin’s plight with Paris Hilton’s experiences. You can view it at http://www.sophos.com/blogs/gc/g/2008/09/18/paris-hilton-sarah-palin-video/ or embed it on your own site if you like.
September 18th, 2008 on 8:25 pm
On the news this evening they discussed possible criminal penalties involved with something like this. Has anyone been convicted of hacking into someone else’s personal email account before? Did they catch whomever did this to Paris Hilton?
There was another prominent figure that had the same thing happen, but under more dubious circumstances. Karl Rove was the “victim” and the publicity actually helped him a great deal. If it’s not out there already, the conspiracy theorists will have a hay-day with this one!
September 19th, 2008 on 5:35 am
Scott,
I believe nothing will happen as far as punishment goes. Just recently a major hacker walked from his crime, so what makes this more severe?