Palin Email Hackers Dorm Raid Creates Another Reason To Get A Password Manager
- By Grey McKenzie
- Published Monday 22nd 2008
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The hacker of the email account of Alaskan Governor and Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin may be a student of the University of Tennessee.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation searched David Kernell’s apartment on Saturday around midnight in connection with the Governor's account.
Menner was nearby when the FBI searched Kernell’s Fort Sanders Apartment, and had seen the accused hacker in passing a few times since the raid.
“He seemed rattled and shaken,” said Menner. “I would be too and he obviously knows what he did was wrong."
According to witnesses, the raid came while several neighbors were partying after the University of Tennessee verse Florida football game
“This black SUV came up, and all these guys got out with equipment and they had a big black bag with high tech stuff in it,” said Jarrett Mooneyham, who was at the apartment. “It was just a big ordeal and everybody was drunk, so it was really chaotic."
Mooneyham said the agents were looking for Kernell, but never found him because he was hiding out on the second floor of the complex with some of his friends.
This whole episode just underscores how easy it is to hack into any online email account, including powerful & influential people.If you use birthdays, family names or even social security numbers as passwords just because they are easy to remember, you may find yourself the victim of a hacker.
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