Vice-Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin Has E-mail Account Hacked

The news of a grave violation of privacy—yes, a criminal violation as well—has returned to prominence the ever-important question of safeguarding secure accounts in the Internet age. With more and more personal information such as bank accounts, credit card numbers, and other personal, private information being sent and stored online, the chance for theft and data breaches has become exponentially greater.

Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, a newcomer to the national scene who was thrust into the public spotlight just a few weeks ago, found that her personal Yahoo e-mail account was hacked by a group of Internet pranksters, who took screenshots of Palin’s inbox and a few select e-mails and posted them at Wikileaks.org.

Palin has been the center of a legal entanglement in her home state of Alaska, and she has been widely accused of attempting to skirt state record-keeping policies by corresponding about official state business in her personal e-mail account. Several e-mails on what appear to be state subjects were displayed in the screenshots.

The Boston Herald reports that the FBI and Secret Services are on the case, and that the perpetrator will be punished to the fullest extent of the law. �

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