Sarah Palin’s Yahoo email account is hacked

If you have been living in a cave since 29th August, you may have missed the news that US Presidential hopeful John McCain has chosen an Alaskan moose-burger-eating lipstick-wearing hockey mum as his running mate. Oh, and she’s Governor of Alaska too.

Sarah Palin, like many other officials and business workers, uses email and the internet extensively to communicate, keep herself updated and schedule her activities. It was no surprise, therefore, to learn in the newspapers earlier this week that she has a web-email address, [email protected]

Word now reaches us that hackers claim to have broken into Sarah Palin’s Yahoo account and posted examples of her emails, addresses of her contacts, and…

Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.

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