Sarah Palin's Personal Email Compomised By Answering Simple Questions

When the recent news broke that Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin's personal email was compromised, people everywhere worried about hackers' power in infiltrating a supposedly secure email system. Well, as it turns out, it was a simple Q&A that let down the gates. According to reports surfacing today, Palin's personal email was breached by simply answering default and very simple security questions. Most people will recall setting default questions when they signed up for an email address such as entering a zip code, the name of your eldest son, or your city of birth. It seems Palin chose very simple questions: her zip code, date of birth, and where she met her husband. When you are a public person, getting this info is incredibly easy. Paris Hilton had the exact same problem when someone gained access to her T-Mobile account by guessing the name of her dog. For Palin, her account was compromised in less than 45 minutes when the infiltrator guessed "Wasilla High School" as the place her and her husband met. The person or persons who broke into Palin's personal account were clearly doing so without authorization, but it raises bigger questions and possibly red flags for the rest of us. If you are sitting at home protecting a big huge secret in your email inbox, you might want to consider updating your questions to answers nobody will ever guess.