The FBI over the weekend executed a search on the apartment of a University of Tennessee student suspected in the hacking of Republican vice presidential candidate Governor Sarah Palin’s Yahoo e-mail account.
It has been reported that hackers broke into the personal site of Fox News commentator Bill O’Reilly, who had been carrying on for several days in anger over the hacks, and posted subscriber information to the WikiLeaks Web site.
Last week, Tennessee state legislator Mike Kernell, a Democratic representative from Memphis, said his son David was a suspect in the investigation.
“I had nothing to do with it, I had no knowledge or anything,” Rep. Kernell told the Associated Press. “I was not a party to anything of this nature at all. I wasn’t in on this … and I wouldn’t know how to do anything like that.”
How do hackers get access to your email?
Once a hacker knows your email, they try to guess the secret question to change the password of your email account. Once they guess right they enter a new password and now have full access to your email.
How to avoid your email from being hacked?
First off, use a secret question that no one can look up on the internet or guess. It is best if you have the option to create your own secret question instead of using the pre-canned choices that many would-be hackers will search as indicated on how Palin and now Bill O’Reilly email accounts were hacked.
