Alaska Governor Uses Yahoo Mail to Conduct Official Business, Account Hacked

[Kristijntje]

Alaska Governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin received a harsh lesson in the relative security, or rather lack thereof, of commercial e-mail accounts Wednesday. The GOP hopeful for VP discovered her personal Yahoo e-mail account, on which she allegedly conducted official state business as governor of Alaska, had been hacked by activists associated with the group Anonymous.

The break-in was reported by Wikileaks.org Tuesday after hackers gained access to Palin's gov.palin@yahoo.com account and provided contents from that account to the Web site. The information includes some family photos, a list of contacts and e-mails.

The e-mails included a draft to California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, another concerning nominations to Alaska's state court of appeal and others dealing with the Alaska Department of Public Safety, according to Wikileaks...

full article: http://ecommercetimes.com/story/What-Pal...64538.html

. Governor Palin has come under criticism for using private email accounts to conduct government business and in the process avoid transparency laws...

wikileaks: http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Sarah_Palin_Ya...count_2008