He said he used the information to reset Palin’s password and go through her e-mail to see for anything incriminating that might “derail her campaign.” Rubico said it was harder to find the answer to one of the other questions needed for a password recovery: Where had Palin met her husband? After some digging, Rubico determined that the couple first met at Wasilla High School.
“Birthday? 15 seconds on wikipedia, zip code? well she had always been from wasilla, and it only has 2 zip codes (thanks online postal service!)” “It took seriously 45 mins on wikipedia and google to find the info” needed, Rubico claimed. Rubico allegedly became interested in Palin’s e-mail after reading media reports of her using a Yahoo! e-mail account and decided to try and access it by resetting her password. b/tards, as its denizens are called, are interested only in their own amusement,” the reader claimed. The individual who first broke into Palin’s e-mail account apparently belonged to a group called /b/, which the reader described as the “most notorious” of the boards on. Rubico’s claims could not be verified and security analysts have been skeptical of the claims.Īccording to the Malkin blog reader, hosts multiple boards, each of which is dedicated to specific subjects. The first-person account was originally posted on a Web site called by a poster identified only as “Rubico.” That post, along with a related thread, was later deleted from that site - but not before a reader of Malkin’s blog apparently snagged a copy of it and sent it along to Malkin. That’s according to a description of events posted on a blog site run by conservative syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin. The alleged hacker said in an online posting that he gained access by simply resetting the password to Palin’s Yahoo! e-mail account using its password recovery service. He said he’s reasonably confident he can help authorities sift through the logs and trace access back to the originating IP address - especially because the self-professed hacker has admitted using just one proxy service to access Palin’s account. Ramuglia is now in the process of importing more than 80GB worth of log data into a database for analysis. Ramuglia, who normally stores only a week’s worth of log data, said he would not have deleted anything anyway because of the illegal nature of what had happened. Ramuglia said in an interview that he was contacted by FBI officials last night and asked to retain computer logs of the last few days’ activity on his service and make sure nothing is deleted.
Gabriel Ramuglia, the Athens, Ga.-based Webmaster of Ctunnel, said Thursday that URLs in screenshots of Palin’s e-mail - photos were posted online Wednesday on and other sites - suggested that whoever accessed her Yahoo! account had used his proxy service. The Webmaster of a proxy service called, which may have been used by a hacker to illegally access the e-mail account of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, is working with law enforcement authorities to track down the person behind the break-in.