Was Palin’s E-Mail Account Really Hacked?

Was Palin’s E-Mail Account Really Hacked?

Sarah Palin, vice presidential candidate, suffered quite a number of intrusions into her private life.
Recently 'hackers' got access to her personal email account.
Later, screen shots of the Republican candidate's account were posted to a very popular website.

Gawker.com published family photos and parts of emails the Alaska governor had exchanged with her fellows. According to Gawker the email account hasn't been active since, but the snapshots are still up on the site and everyone can see them.

The images of the emails were saved before the account was shut down, the addresses of the contacts are also available. The site refused to take the content down and claims that the private emails constitute 'news'.

The colleagues of John McCain called the postings a 'shocking invasion of the governor’s privacy and a violation of law'.

They threaten to involve the 'appropriate' authorities and unrealistically think that those who downloaded the emails will delete them.

We can only imagine the difficulties encountered while verifying the account; the author of the article even called a phone number of Palin’s teenage daughter, Bristol. The site also published a lot of contact emails associated with the account.

Wired.com and Gawker.com write that an anonymous group is responsible for hacking into Palin’s account. Naturally, the screen shots were duplicated on other websites. Some of the sites got scared and subsequently deleted the emails.

The account was a prosaic Yahoo email account. This 'leaked' account is different from Palin's private account made public in The Washington Post a few days ago.

Gawker claimed that Palin has 'deleted' the account, and suggested that she 'tries to destroy evidence'.

Palin is known for using her private account to discuss government issues. Why Palin and her fellows switch between public and private email accounts?
Does she withhold something from public records request?
That's what Republican activists would like to know, according to The Washington Post.

Palin and her family are under major scrutiny after she was selected as John McCain’s running partner. Since August 29, reporters flocked to her home town.
Wasilla, Alaska, is now the focal point for media after it became known that her teenage daughter is pregnant.