[Infowarrior] - Palin’s E-Mail Account Hacked, Published on Web Site

[Richard Forno]

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.