Palin Supporters Hack Twitter Feed of Company Posting Her Emails

[one_voice]

Not everyone was pleased with last Friday's amusing race to read Sarah Palin's 24,199 pages of emails. According to the liberal website PoliticsUSA as well as MSNBC.com, Palin supporters took control of the Twitter feed of Crivella West, the company which posted the documents online for MSNBC.com. While the account was temporarily hijacked, numerous pro-Palin messages like "Weiner's America or Palin's America-That Is the 2012 Choice" (what an appealing choice) were tweeted.



PoliticsUSA has the screenshots of the hacker's messages and MSNBC followed up with the company to find out what happened:

"It appears that there is a 'hole' in one of the applications (we think Facebook) that links to Twitter," Art Crivella, founder and CEO of the company, Crivella West, told msnbc.com Sunday evening. "We've disabled them and mopped up the bile and changed all the passwords."

The hacking of Crivella West is more symbolic than anything else. MSNBC's Bill Dedman explains its role in the Palin emails story:



Crivella West, a Pittsburgh company that analyzes documents in some of the largest legal cases and works with both political parties, had first offered its services for free to the state of Alaska, after officials there said in 2008 they were overwhelmed by records requests and would require payment of $15 million by any citizen or journalist seeking the records. After the state did not reply to the company's offer, msnbc.com and the company agreed to put online a free public archive of the records once the state released them.


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http://nationaljournal.com/dailyfray/palin-supporters-hack-twitter-feed-of-company-posting-her-emails-20110613

edited to add another link.. http://www.politicususa.com/en/crivella-west-twitter

and some screen shots:

[onehandle]

1. Using Facebook for anything, especially linking it to things, is saying, 'Hey, hack me.' nt

[one_voice]

2. kicking with the updates. n/t