How Palin’s Yahoo! Email Was Compromised
Sunday, September 21st, 2008 by Harry LewisApparently, a college student in Tennessee reset her password. (This was one of the possibilities I raised, but doubted, in my previous post. I am surprised to learn that Yahoo!’s security questions aren’t stronger, and that it uses this method for resetting passwords at all.) Here is Wired’s account of how easy it was:
‚Ķ the Palin hack didn’t require any real skill. Instead, the hacker simply reset Palin’s password using her birthdate, ZIP code and information about where she met her spouse — the security question on her Yahoo account, which was answered (Wasilla High) by a simple Google search.
How much trouble is he in? Probably not too much, according to authoritative sources quoted in another Wired story.
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