How Did Sarah Palin’s Email Get Hacked?
He basically guessed!
The story was briefly posted Wednesday to the 4chan forum where the hack first surfaced. Bloggers have connected the handle of the poster, “Rubico,” to an e-mail address, and tentatively identified the owner as a college student in Tennessee, reports Wired.
The hacker guessed that Palin had met her husband in high school and used other publicly known details like her birthday and zip code to trick Yahoo Inc.’s service into assigning a new password.
“i am the lurker who did it, and i would like to tell the story,” the person wrote in an account circulating Internet. What started as a prank was cut short because of panic over the possibility the FBI might investigate, the hacker wrote.
Investigation is ongoing.
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