E-mail accounts easy to break into

Wednesday, October 1, 2008 - 06:35 in Mathematics & Economics

The hacker who infiltrated Sarah Palin's e-mail account last month may have intended to embarrass the Republican vice presidential candidate, but the prank also exposed one of the Internet industry's most uncomfortable secrets: It is remarkably easy for someone to break into your online e-mail account.

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