Sarah Palin's Yahoo account hijacked, e-mails posted online
Summary: On the heels of media reports that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was using a private Yahoo e-mail account (gov.palin@yahoo.
On the heels of media reports that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin was using a private Yahoo e-mail account (gov.palin@yahoo.com) to conduct Alaska state business, hackers have broken into the account and posted evidence of the hijack on Wikileaks.
An activist group calling itself 'anonymous' claimed responsibility for the compromise and released screenshots, photographs and the e-mail addresses of several people close to Palin, including her husband Todd and assistant Ivy Frye.
Circa midnight Tuesday the 16th of September (EST) Wikileaks’ sources loosely affiliated with the activist group ‘anonymous’ gained access to U.S. Republican Party Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account gov.palin@yahoo.com. Governor Palin has come under criticism for using private email accounts to avoid government transparency mechanisms. The zip archive made available by Wikileaks contains screen shots of Palin’s inbox, example emails, address book and two family photos. The list of correspondence, together with the account name, appears to re-enforce the criticism.
The list of e-mails include an exchange with Alaskan Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell about his campaign for Congress and an e-mail from Amy McCorkell, whom Palin appointed to the Governor's Advisory Board on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse in 2007.
Wired's Threat Level reports that McMcCorkell confirmed that she did send the e-mail to Palin.
Following the release of this story, both Sarah Palin's better known account gov.sarah@yahoo.com and the gov.palin@yahoo.com account have been suspended or deleted as revealed by a test email sent to these addresses by Wikileaks. Although the reasons for the deletion of both accounts can not not yet be established, one interpretation is that Palin is trying to destroy her email records.
Wikileaks said it may release additional e-mails should they prove be of political substance.
Here's one screenshot of an e-mail released by the group.
* Hat tip: Chris Wysopal, Veracode. Image via CBS News.
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Devilcrats Strike again
And you know it is the Democrats because...
Could be a Republican who doesn't like her.
Wat
Nice.
Hmm?
Lots of Democrats don't like her.
Lots of people don't like her.
Because she's completely full of sh*t, has zero clue what's going on in government, has no foreign policy experience other than being able to see Russia (what a stupid thing to say, honestly), wants to take rights away from women, including their right to get their rapes investigated in the event of them being poor (she made them pay for their own rape kits in her home town...couldn't spend an estimated $14,000 investigating horrible crimes, but $20 million for a stadium is a-okay) or to not have to birth a child that was conceived through violence or incest, wants to teach religion in public schools, says she's against earmarking, but took more earmarked dollars per capita than any other state, thinks that Iraq is responsible for 9/11, wants to go to war with Russia, shoots defenseless animals from helicopters with high-powered rifles, came into her town of 5,500 as mayor with a surplus and left them in the hole so deep they can barely see daylight (over $20 million in debt...that's around $4,000 per person)....
On second thought, you're right...why would anyone dislike her?
Wait...you forgot a country she made a "foreign policy" trip to...Ireland!
Silly me.
It counts
I also forgot that she claimed to have visited Iraq...but she didn't.
And that she claimed that she opposed the Bridge to Nowhere....but she didn't. Not until Alaska was expected to foot some of the bill. Kept the money though.
So, she sounds just like Obama, Clinton,
They're all liers, plain and simple, the main thing is who's lies won't get in the way of my life.
Yes. So?
All politicians suck? That was kind of the point. Did you have something relevant to say?
She may be actually be the anti-Christ though....
WoW!
@Shadetree
@laura
I wouldn't so much have a problem with McCain, but looking at the guy... I'm not so sure Palin wouldn't end up being the pres. Her I wouldn't vote for.
Sorry, but for all the empowering speaches Obama gives... I don't trust him either. Guess I'm back to writing in Mickey Mouse! j/k
@Badgered
Unfortunately, we're back to choosing the lesser of two evils again.
It's pretty obvious which ticket represents less evil. It would have been a draw a couple of weeks ago. Too bad McCain couldn't have picked a decent human being for a running mate. If he absolutely had to have a woman, there were quite a few qualified ones available.
Illustrative of very poor judgement.
Tiring
Just to clarify...
The Mccain campaign included these in official releases
And everyone still likes her better than the Obamanation.
Which "you" are you referring to?
Thank you...
I'm not a Rep or Dem but agree more with the Dems than Reps. But the Reps themselves especially the women like Kay Bailey Hutchinson should be INFURIATED. Palin amounts to nothing more than a token to draw votes from the people that don't pay attention to issues whatsoever.
Don't sweat him
It's sad--it reminds me of Terry Pratchett's clowns. It's like they're put here to remind us how tragically [i]unfunny[/i] that kind of stuff can be.
Alternatively, you could say they're nearing five exclamation marks on the sanity scale.
!!!!!
Ok, Where is yoru proof