Sarah Palin Hack Hoax?

Was the Sarah Palin email hack a hoax?

I'm not sure if we will every truly know the answer to this question. It seems that neither McCain or Palin deny the incident, but neither is adding any real comment about the information hacked. Does their response make the hack legit? I don't really believe this adds any creditability to the story. I believe a denial that it was truly her account would only make people more suspect. So I believe they are making the right move and squashing the incident by saying that, they are aware of the incident and that they will have no further comment.

The hack looks to be legit and is based on a simple theory on using the forgot password and security question to gain access to an account.

What should this tell us?

This should help us realize some basic tricks hacker can use to access our accounts. It should also tell us to make our passwords and password security questions complex enough to keep people from getting access to data we would deem sensitive.

My next post will be specific to making you password, and password security question complex enough to keep hackers from guessing you answers, while at the same time simple enough to be remembered by you.