Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin fell victim to Web hackers today as screenshots from her personal email account went public on wikileaks.org.
A hacker group known as Annonymous claims responsibility for hacking into Sarah Palin’s gov.palin@yahoo.com email account and sharing their findings with wikileaks. They sought to uncover Palin using the personal account to conduct government business, a method to avoid government transparency laws she has been accused of using. The screenshots show that those accusations might have some merit.
One of the emails that leaked on wikileaks shows a correspondence between Sarah Palin and Alaska Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell about his run for Congress. The leak also has an email from Amy McCorkell, a member of the Governor’s Advisory Board on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse whom Palin appointed in 2007.
Wikileaks also posted a list of Sarah Palin’s contacts in her Yahoo account and some family photos taken from the account. The McCain-Palin camp has not yet responded to the hacked email account.
This might be the evidence needed to accuse Palin of trying to avoid government transparency laws that say that government business conducted by elected officials must be available to the public.