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Palin's Private Email Hacked, Posted


Around midnight last night the Yahoo mailbox of Sarah Palin was purportedly hacked by the group known as "Anonymous".  The group is best known for it's exposing of unethical behavior by the Church of Scientology.  Some sample emails and screenshots of the mailbox were posted on Wikileaks.org.  The site is currently unavailable but said screenshots are also posted at Huffington Post.

It is not confirmed that the actual account was hacked or that the emails are valid or a hoax but the "Anonymous" group and Wikileaks.org are well known.  Here is a quote from Wikileaks' press release:

The internet activist group 'anonymous', famed for its exposure of unethical behavior by the Scientology cult, has now gone after the Alaskan governor and republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

At around midnight last night the group gained access to governor Palin's email account ... and handed over the contents to the government sunshine site Wikileaks.org.

Governor Palin has come under media criticism in the past week for using pseudo-private email accounts to avoid Alaskan freedom of information laws.

The zip archive made available by Wikileaks

contains screen shots of Palin's inbox, two example emails, governor Palin's address box and a couple of family photos. While the emails released so far reveal little, the list of correspondence appears to re-enforce the criticism that Palin is mixing governmental and personal affairs.

 

 


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I think I may have double posted this, my apologies.

Do you think this could have been fabricated to create drama?

Echo?

I couldn't get the link to work. Tried twice on both posts. (?)

But, thanks for the info.

Is Dick Cheney spying on Sarah Palin?

Is she a National Security risk?

So Sarah how do you like it when your records are compromised, I sure hope to hear you speak out about this breach!!!!

So Sarah cry me a river, and then build a bridge, and get over it.

The McCain camp has issued a statement on this:

ARLINGTON, VA — Today, McCain-Palin 2008 Campaign Manager Rick Davis issued the following statement concerning reports about Governor Palin's email and an invasion of privacy: "This is a shocking invasion of the Governor's privacy and a violation of law. The matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these emails will destroy them. We will have no further comment."

It looks legit. Gawker is being given credit for breaking this, and have the best writeup I've seen on it:
http://gawker.com/5051193/sarah-palins-personal-emails

The wikileaks site:
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin_Yahoo_inbox_2008

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Sarah, Sarah, Sarah....


I guess now you know:"librulzsuk" is not a secure password.

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