Hackers infiltrated Palin's email account

Subject: Hackers infiltrated Palin's email account Thu Oct 02, 2008 4:56 pm

Hackers have broken in to the e-mail of the US Republican vice-presidential candidate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The hackers, who targeted a personal Yahoo account, posted several messages and family photos from her inbox. The campaign of running mate John McCain condemned their action as “a shocking invasion of the governor’s privacy and a violation of the law”. The hacking comes amid questions about whether Mrs Palin used personal e-mail to conduct state business. According to law, all e-mails relating to the official business of government must be archived and not destroyed. However, personal e-mails can be deleted. Mrs Palin is currently under investigation in Alaska for alleged abuse of power while governor.

A group called Anonymous has claimed responsibility for the hacking of Mrs Palin’s Yahoo e-mail. It posted five screenshots, two digital photos of Mrs Palin’s family and an address book to the whistle-blowing Wikileaks website. The information was taken from Ms Palin’s gov.palin@yahoo.com e-mail account. Subsequent investigation has shown that the gov.palin@yahoo.com account has been shut down along with another, gov.sarah@yahoo.com, also owned by Mrs Palin. It is not clear yet what methods the hacking group used to access to the e-mail account. The screenshots posted by the hackers reveal that they carried out the attack via a so-called proxy service to hide their tracks and limit the chance that they would be traced. Earlier in 2008 the Anonymous group launched several online assaults against the Church of Scientology.

Subject: Re: Hackers infiltrated Palin's email account Thu Oct 02, 2008 11:40 pm

lol......there back!!!!!!! I knew someone from anonymous didn't give him my email address though