FBI searches apartment of alleged Palin hacker

[shan]

Federal authorities are ramping up an investigation of a 20-year-old college student for allegedly hacking into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's e-mail account.

The FBI searched the apartment of alleged hacker David Kernell on Sunday morning, and three of Kernell's roommates could testify this week about the case before a grand jury in Chattanooga, according to local news reports.

After it was discovered that the Republican vice presidential candidate's personal Yahoo e-mail account was hacked into, reports began circulating that the hack could be traced back to Kernell, a University of Tennessee student and son of Democratic Tennessee state representative Mike Kernell.

Witnesses told a local television station that the FBI served a search warrant at Kernell's Knoxville, Tenn., apartment early Sunday morning, interrupting a party, and spent more than an hour taking pictures of the apartment. Kernell's three roommates were subpoenaed to testify this week, a witness also said.

The hacker gained access to Palin's account by guessing certain personal details about the governor's life and then resetting her password to "popcorn." ZIP files with content from Palin's account were posted on the Internet.

Laura Sweeney, a Justice Department public-affairs specialist, confirmed that there was investigatory activity relating to the Palin hack in Knoxville over the weekend but said no criminal charges have been filed against anyone.

hacking yahoo mail! is there any mail account with is unhackable

[Solaris]

Only one advise on that:
Never use Yahoo mail.

[Michael Y]

This is what she gets for lying about her son/grandson.

[brayden]

if she is stupid enough to use yahoo then she deserves that, she should use gmail.

[ding-dong]

how the hell did they hack it? is it true that you can hack yahoo mail?

[blackrose]

Never mind she is now on the talk of the town. It was fool of her to use all the particulars related to her family. It will be easy for someone to think and HACK into her yahoo account.

[Flubug]

It's not really hacking. It's something like social interacting I suppose. He guessed his way into the email account. He didn't do any brute force hacking. And that can happen to not only Yahoo, but also Hotmail and other email providers as well.

[bahirzaheri8]

It's not really hacking. It's something like social interacting I suppose. He guessed his way into the email account. He didn't do any brute force hacking. And that can happen to not only Yahoo, but also Hotmail and other email providers as well.

Agree with Flubug

[Ceyfer √]

All online accounts are vulnerable to this thing - Lots of ways to get that thing work,even grade school boy could do it with the help of "Internet" ...

Ignorance kills-

[brayden]

Lucky for me my gmail account password just doesn't have any relation to my life.