Sarah Palin's Yahoo E-mail Hacked!

[Yarfunkle]

"anonymous" does it again

Anonymous delivers, I guess. :icon_wink:

[T_Won]

Some e-mails from this account were going to be retrieved in association with the 'troopergate' investigation. Now the account has been deleted (by Palin?).

Would that be considered destruction of evidence?

No, because it was obtained illegally. Somebody screwed up and is going to the big house, but it's not Palin.

[Yarfunkle]

No, because it was obtained illegally. Somebody screwed up and is going to the big house, but it's not Palin.

Before the e-mail account was hacked, they were asking for e-mails from that account. Would that change since the account was compromised?

[JuBru]

Before the e-mail account was hacked, they were asking for e-mails from that account. Would that change since the account was compromised?

The files are still restrievable...

And you're wrong - personal emails are not government business, if not related government business.

[saltydawg]

The files are still restrievable...

And you're wrong - personal emails are not government business, if not related government business.

They are if they are sent from a government Office on a government computer. And the Guv's Mansion is considered a government building. She should have gone down to the local McDonalds.

[FriscoDog]

They were obtained illegally.... the ends do not justify the means... period. They posted her childrens phone numbers on the web... this is not government information it is personal. The persons who hacked into the email account along with the website people who continues to post the information should be prosecuted and sent to jail for a long time.

[FriscoDog]

So Salty, if BHO becomes President, all phone calls, emails he makes, even to his wife, kids, mom, etc. should be made public for all to see because he is in the white house or capital???

[saltydawg]

So Salty, if BHO becomes President, all phone calls, emails he makes, even to his wife, kids, mom, etc. should be made public for all to see because he is in the white house or capital???

If they are made on a government computer, they might be subject to a court order release.. Of course it is very hard to hack into a government computer. Palin made a mistake in using a non-government email account that was easily hacked. Hope that helps.

The fact that the hacker acted illegally will not help her, obviously.

[arkansasbob]

The hackers that did this have no political affiliation.. or leaders for that matter.

The group is consisted of completely anonymous Internet denizens.

really? they're anonymous, yet you know that they have no political affiliation or leaders? so you know who it is?

[Yarfunkle]

really? they're anonymous, yet you know that they have no political affiliation or leaders? so you know who it is?

Yes, I do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)

[arkansasbob]

Yes, I do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_(group)

i think you are misunderstanding the concept. anyone can act as "anonymous." the fact that they called themselves "anonymous" does not tie them in any way to any other groups that have acted under the same name.

[arkansasbob]

by the way, i don't see how this is newsworthy other than the fact that it is an illegal invasion of privacy of a newsworthy person. i didn't realize that government officials were not allowed to have personal email accounts.

[arkansasbob]

by the way, i don't see how this is newsworthy other than the fact that it is an illegal invasion of privacy of a newsworthy person. i didn't realize that government officials were not allowed to have personal email accounts.

daybreaker, i don't know why you said it in a reputation comment instead of public debate, but it bears discussion here.

just for clarification, based on the screen shots i saw, it does not look like she was conducting government business from that email account. having private conversations with other government officials, even if it involves governmental matters, does not constitute government business.

[Poisso3]

1) Gov. Pailin's Yahoo account was used only for person e-mails and not State business.
2) Alaska has tough laws against this, and whoever is responsable will face charges and excradition to Alaska. Also, they will face federal charges since this was an interstate crime, and also the Secret Survice are investigating seeing how she is a VEEP canidate.

Also, Anonymous is not responsable. I found this posting while searching for information on what happened:

I missed the original incident, but monitored the discussion and repostings afterward to see what I could learn about what had happened and who was responsible.
There are several misconceptions and errors in most accounts of this story, including your post. Most significantly, the perpetrator(s) were not members of an infamous group of hackers. I don’t blame you for misunderstanding this, because in all the media coverage regarding the war with Scientology the media has completely failed to explain what Anonymous is.
Anonymous is not exactly a group. It is people using the umbrella of a web discussion board for cover to be as offensive, funny, strange, or whatever as they want.
Here’s the short version: there is a site called 4chan.org. It is an image posting site based on a popular Japanese site. The site contains multiple boards, each of which is dedicated to a particular subject. The most notorious of these boards is called /b/. /b/ is the board dedicated to random images. /b/tards, as its denizens are called, are interested only in their own amusement. Their sense of humor runs the gamut from sick to cruel to merely strange. Lolcats, as made famous by http://www.icanhascheezburger.com, originated on /b/. A lot of memes start there. There is a lot of racist humor — pictures of excited and happy black people in proximity to fried chicken abound. There is a lot of pornography. Sometimes it’s child pornography, although posting that is moderator grounds for banning — no, it’s not a pedophile ring; /b/tards post it because they think doing so is funny.
4chan does not log participants. Most people don’t use or have usernames, and post instead as “Anonymous.” And every so often, a number of /b/’s anonymous denizens decide to make somebody’s life hell. Sometimes it’s a random person who offends /b/’s sense of propriety. Sometimes it’s a forum dedicated to a serious topic. Sometimes it’s Scientology. And Tuesday, it was Sarah Palin. Or it would have been.
Sarah Palin’s email account was hacked by one person. Not a group.
This person read her emails, then posted the username and password on /b/. This happened at about 4 in the morning on Tuesday. The idea was that the sea of Anonymous /b/tards would download the emails, upload porn, and cause all manner of mischief. Anonymous is not a group of hackers. Anonymous is more like gremlins. They are hyperactive adolescents in search of amusement and joy, which they often get by upsetting people and making messes. That’s what was happening here. Anonymous did not hack the account. A hacker tried to throw Sarah Palin to Anonymous. Not all of Anonymous was having it. One person threw a crowbar in the works. Other /b/tards were displeased to miss a chance at the lulz. The moderators stepped in. The thread was deleted.
Later, other individuals created threads reposting screencaps of emails and the inbox, and put together a collection of these files. All mentions of these were purged by the moderators. So then some bright /b/tards decided to email what little stuff they had to the media.
That’s pretty much it.
This afternoon, in a thread that was later deleted, an individual claiming to be the original poster gave his account of what happened. I’ve attached screencaps. Here’s the text. The original poster used the name “rubico.” The linked email address for the poster was rubico10@yahoo.com.
This is what rubico said:
rubico 09/17/08(Wed)12:57:22 No.85782652
Hello, /b/ as many of you might already know, last night sarah palin’s yahoo was “hacked” and caps were posted on /b/, i am the lurker who did it, and i would like to tell the story.
In the past couple days news had come to light about palin using a yahoo mail account, it was in news stories and such, a thread was started full of newfags trying to do something that would not get this off the ground, for the next 2 hours the acct was locked from password recovery presumably from all this bullshit spamming.
after the password recovery was reenabled, it took seriously 45 mins on wikipedia and google to find the info, Birthday? 15 seconds on wikipedia, zip code? well she had always been from wasilla, and it only has 2 zip codes (thanks online postal service!)
the second was somewhat harder, the question was “where did you meet your spouse?” did some research, and apparently she had eloped with mister palin after college, if youll look on some of the screenshits that I took and other fellow anon have so graciously put on photobucket you will see the google search for “palin eloped” or some such in one of the tabs.
I found out later though more research that they met at high school, so I did variations of that, high, high school, eventually hit on “Wasilla high” I promptly changed the password to popcorn and took a cold shower…
>> rubico 09/17/08(Wed)12:58:04 No.85782727
this is all verifiable if some anal /b/tard wants to think Im a troll, and there isn’t any hard proof to the contrary, but anyone who had followed the thread from the beginning to the 404 will know I probably am not, the picture I posted this topic with is the same one as the original thread.
I read though the emails… ALL OF THEM… before I posted, and what I concluded was anticlimactic, there was nothing there, nothing incriminating, nothing that would derail her campaign as I had hoped, all I saw was personal stuff, some clerical stuff from when she was governor…. And pictures of her family
I then started a topic on /b/, peeps asked for pics or gtfo and I obliged, then it started to get big
Earlier it was just some prank to me, I really wanted to get something incriminating which I was sure there would be, just like all of you anon out there that you think there was some missed opportunity of glory, well there WAS NOTHING, I read everything, every little blackberry confirmation… all the pictures, and there was nothing, and it finally set in, THIS internet was serious business, yes I was behind a proxy, only one, if this shit ever got to the FBI I was ****ed, I panicked, i still wanted the stuff out there but I didn’t know how to rapidshit all that stuff, so I posted the pass on /b/, and then promptly deleted everything, and unplugged my internet and just sat there in a comatose state
Then the white knight ****er came along, and did it in for everyone, I trusted /b/ with that email password, I had gotten done what I could do well, then passed the torch , all to be let down by the douchebaggery, good job /b/, this is why we cant have nice things
The “white knight ****er” was the /b/tard who thought that going through Sarah Palin’s email wasn’t cool. He logged in, changed the password, and sent an email to a friend of Palin’s warning her and letting her know the new password. Unfortunately, he then posted a screenshot of this email to let the other /b/tards know their fun was over. He failed to blank the password, and they all tried to log in and change the password — which tripped the automated Yahoo! freeze. Since then, the account has been deleted. “Rapidshit” refers to rapidshare.com — i.e., rubico wanted to download the emails, put them into one file, and put that file up on rapidshare for /b/tards and the world at large to download. But he panicked, or didn’t know how to download the emails, and so pawned that task off on Anonymous, which he didn’t realize wasn’t monolithic and in his favor.
As Paul Harvey would say, “And now you know…. the rest of the story.”

[Yarfunkle]

i think you are misunderstanding the concept. anyone can act as "anonymous." the fact that they called themselves "anonymous" does not tie them in any way to any other groups that have acted under the same name.

I think you are actually misunderstanding the concept.

Anonymous (a proper noun, in this case) exists almost solely to cause havoc on the internet. They reside on a particular image board (4chan, which is commonly referred to as the gutter of the Internet). They do dispicible things just to get their 'lulz' which basically is laughter at anothers expense. This same group has attacked the epilepsy foundation message board, and posted flashing, seizure inducing animated pictures.

In this case, Anonymous is a group, not just someone being anonymous.