Mark Forscher

Like many Bush administration officials, Sarah Palin used private email addresses for public communications, potentially to avoid document release requests. In her case, she used the addresses gov.sarah@yahoo.com and gov.palin@yahoo.com.

Well today an anonymous poster claimed to have hacked Sarah Palin’s email account. Here’s a timeline of the incident. Supposedly there are screenshots of the inbox on wikileaks but the url isn’t loading for me.

While the hack and invasion of privacy is obviously not commendable, this incident highlights the gaping security hole and dangers of public officials using private email addresses for official communication.