The very fabric of our democracy came under attack last week when a hacker broke into Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s e-mail account. Federal investigators have since been involved, and are closing in on a possible culprit, a college student at the University of Tennessee.
Investigators have tracked an IP address to student housing at The Commons in Knoxville, part of the University of Tennessee. It seems the student in question, 20, did, in fact, try to cover his trail by using a proxy server (provided by Ctunnel.com), but the Feds have already figured him or her out.
Next time, elite hacker, use something like Tor, which will help out at least a little bit.
Still, if found out, the hacker isn’t expected to face any serious jail time because of some sort of legal loophole.
I honestly wouldn’t qualify this kid as a “hacker”. They guessed the password off the reset questions, not much of a hack there. If there was a flaw in the system that was exploited then maybe but lets be honest, this was something that anyone based on the circumstances could have done. hack the planet
I would still call this a Hack by most definitions. This doesn’t make him intelligent by any means. In Fact you’d think he would be a little smarter being a Politicians son. Those democrats don’t breed intelligence though just another waist of perfectly good oxygen.
This kid probably just wanted a little fame.
There is only 2 kinds of hackers, those who are Famous and those who are good.
What legal loophole?
There’s a loophole if he just looked at old email rather than opening unread email.
@Acid Burn: You might want to watch your spelling and grammatical errors when you are calling someone stupid.
A hack indeed, since he/she found out the flaw of Yahoo!’s verifying question system…
Maybe if the service had send the reset link to the Governor’s alternate email address instead of the web browser this could have been avoided.
@Riles: What if he/she saw all email but remembered to recheck as not read? (I know there are logs for that kind of stuff, which in turn is even scarier).
I guess the moral of the story is to be a bit more paranoid with security matters in general.
buy a usb wifi card with cash (not your lt’s internal mac address) drive to the next town, Wardrive til you find an open network. and for god’s sake use TOR!
Oh yeah, and find a free overseas email account with totally random login
nice…
Thanks, very good!