Details of Palin email hack emerge

The private email account of Vice-Presidential nominee Sarah Palin has been hacked. This break-in was significant, as it has been disclosed that the governor's administration was using Yahoo email accounts as an alternative to government email. It has since emerged that the "hack" didn't require that much sophistication. The hacker essentially reset Palin's password by supplying her birth date and ZIP code, as well as correctly answering the security question for her Yahoo account--the date which she met her spouse. All of the above information was answered within an hour via Wikipedia, a number of Google searches and some intelligent guessing.

To find out more about the Palin email hack:
- check out this IDG News article