This isn’t someone I want to have the nuclear launch codes.
Details have emerged about how Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin’s email account was broken into, including a hacker’s claim he was able to impersonate her online to obtain her password.
The hacker guessed that Alaska’s governor had met her husband in high school, and knew Palin’s date of birth and home Zip code.
Using those details, the hacker tricked Yahoo’s service into assigning a new password, “popcorn” for Palin’s email account, according to a chronology of the crime published on the website where the hacking was first revealed.
[From How hackers broke into Palin’s email – News – Builder AU]