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Hackers have broken into the e-mail of the US Republican vice-presidential candidate, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. The hackers, who targeted a personal Yahoo account, posted several messages and family photos from her inbox.
A group called Anonymous has claimed responsibility for the hacking of Sarah Palin's Yahoo e-mail.
It is unlikely that the family photographs of the Palins posted on Wikileaks were previously in the public domain.
It is not yet clear what methods the hacking group used to gain access to the e-mail account. The screenshots posted by the hackers reveal that they carried out the attack via a so-called proxy service to hide their tracks. Earlier in 2008 the Anonymous group launched several online assaults against the Church of Scientology.