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Palin E-Mail Hacker Sentenced to One Year

University of Tennessee student David Kernell has been sentenced for computer intrusion and obstruction of justice in relation to the hacking of Sarah Palin's personal e-mail in 2008. Kernell will be spending the next year in custody (most likely in a halfway house), and face three years probation. He was found not guilty of the most serious charges, which carried up to a 20-year sentence. ...

FBI Raids Apartment of Suspected Palin E-Mail Hacker

The wily, if careless, hacker who weaseled his way into Governor Palin's private Yahoo! e-mail account may now be in the cross-hairs of the FBI. According to witnesses on the scene, the apartment of David Kernell, a student at the University of Tennessee who is suspected of the hack, was raided by the FBI after the agency obtained a search warrant. The agents broke up a party to search the ...