The E-mail of the Republican Sarah Palin, hacked by a Democrat

The Republican candidate for the vice-president position in the United States, Sarah Palin, lost control of his address e-mail after a group of hackers entitled "Anonymous" managed to break her Yahoo account last week. According to the site wikileaks.org, a hacker with links to a group of notorious informatics criminals has managed to log into the Republican’s account around midnight, on September 17. Screenshots with a WebBrowser logged on gov.palin@yahoo.com address were posted on the Internet, displaying e-mails and personal details of Palin’s policy campaign.

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David Kernell, 20, from Knoxville, Tennessee is suspected to have coordinated the attack, but he could not be questioned, since he could not be found during the search of his room in a student home. Kernell - the son of the Democrat Mike Kernell - came to the attention of federal agents after his e-mail was found attached to a post on the internet, in which he recognized that he managed to enter the candidate’s account by resetting the vice presidenti's password after entering the personal data found on the Internet.

The incident raises big question marks over the security of web-mail accounts. Yahoo, Hotmail and G-mail use similar systems to reset the password, analysts warning that other people with high positions could fall prey to these types of attacks.