[Infowarrior] - Palin’s E-Mail Account Hacked, Published on Web Site
Richard Forno
rforno at infowarrior.org
Thu Sep 18 01:30:16 UTC 2008
Palin’s E-Mail Account Hacked, Published on Web Site
by FOXNews.com
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/17/palins-e-mail-account-hacked-published-on-web-site/
In the latest of a series of invasions into Sarah Palin’s personal
life, hackers have broken into the Republican vice presidential
candidate’s private e-mail account, and a widely read Web site has
published screen grabs from it.
An article Wednesday in Gawker.com posts family photos and snapshots
of e-mail exchanges the Alaska governor had with colleagues. Gawker
says the-email account has since been shut down, but it will leave the
images up on its site for all to see.
“Here are the screenshots of the emails saved before the account went
dark, along with the contact list. It’s newsworthy and we will not be
taking it down!” the site declares.
Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain, released a statement
calling the publication 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 e-mails will destroy them. We
will have no further comment,” Davis said.
The article boasts about the lengths to which the reporter went to
verify the account, saying he or she even called a phone number listed
for Palin’s teenage daughter, Bristol, which apparently went to her
voicemail. The site also listed dozens of contact e-mails from the
account.
Both WIRED and Gawker reported that members claiming to be with a
group known as Anonymous took credit for hacking into Palin’s account.
Screen grabs were published on other Web sites and then deleted,
Gawker reported.
They reportedly came from a Yahoo e-mail account Palin uses — one
separate from another private account that was publicized in The
Washington Post last week.
Gawker complained that Palin has since “deleted” the account, and
suggested she was trying to “destroy evidence.”
Palin has faced scrutiny for using her private account to do
government business. The Washington Post reported last week that a
local Republican activist is trying to get Palin to release more than
1,100 e-mails she withheld from a public records request. The appeal
reportedly questions why Palin and her aides shift between public and
private e-mail accounts.
A spokeswoman in the governor’s office in Alaska declined to comment
Wednesday, referring questions from FOXNews.com to the McCain-Palin
campaign.
“Primarily we’re referring people to the campaign because honestly
people wouldn’t be asking these questions if she wasn’t a candidate
for [vice president],” spokeswoman Kate Morgan said.
The Palin family was subjected to intense scrutiny after she was
selected as John McCain’s running mate on Aug. 29. Reporters descended
on her home town of Wasilla, Alaska, as the media focused on her unwed
teenage daughter’s pregnancy.
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