Hackers break into US Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin’s yahoo.com mailbox

On 18th September 2008, hackers broke into one of the 2 private yahoo.com mailbox of the US Republican vice-presidential candidate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The bad guys then posted several messages and family photos from her inbox to Wikileaks, which were then further distributed by blogs.

Apparently the culprit was a 4chan user who used Palin’s password reset challenge question to change her password.

If you think it’s just email, consider this: no less than the FBI and Secret Service have since begun a joint investigation into the incident.

Full story:
The BBC

Written by pinolobu on September 20th, 2008 with no comments.
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