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Home : Politics : Emailgate: Sarah Palin’s Yahoo Email Account Gets Hacked Right Before The 2008 US Presidential Election

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Emailgate: Sarah Palin’s Yahoo Email Account Gets Hacked Right Before The 2008 US Presidential Election

A team of hackers dubbed "Anonymous" breached Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's personal Yahoo e-mail account, and posted a number of screenshots. The scandal has been nicknamed "Emailgate".

Sep 18, 2008 by J. Frank Wilson
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Allegations that American VP hopeful, Sarah Palin, uses her Yahoo! email account ([email protected]) to conduct Alaska state business was just too tempting for hackers.

Hackers Expose Sarah Palin’s Private Emails In “Emailgate” Scandal

Hacker Anonymous
Michael Treu

A team of hackers dubbed “Anonymous” breached Gov. Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account, and posted a number of announcements and screenshots to several sites on the Internet including Wikileaks.org and Gawker.com.

The hackers were able to mask their tracks by using a CTunnel.com proxy server, but the released screenshots include some partial IP data which authorities might be able to use to catch them.

Sarah Palin'S Yahoo Email Account Gets Hacked
Sarah Palin’s Yahoo Email Account Gets Hacked

Sarah Palin Email Hack Exposes Government Transparency Issues

Palin’s personal email account isn’t just coming under fire from hackers, but also government watchdogs. It’s believed that Governor Palin was using this Yahoo email account to avoid government transparency mechanisms.

Also, after recovering the password from Yahoo, Palin’s people deleted the Yahoo email account. Isn’t that a destruction of evidence?

Sarah Palin Emailgate
A satirical poster naming the Palin email incident “Emailgate.”

The John McCain campaign released this statement about the Yahoo the incident:

“This is 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.”





John McCain has nothing to worry about. McCain doesn’t even know how to use a email (we’re not joking).

J. Frank Wilson
J. Frank Wilson

Frank Wilson is a retired teacher with over 30 years of combined experience in the education, small business technology, and real estate business. He now blogs as a hobby and spends most days tinkering with old computers. Wilson is passionate about tech, enjoys fishing, and loves drinking beer.


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