Sarah Palin: WikiLeaks Supporters Hacked Me

Former Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin gestures while addressing the National Quartet Convention in Louisville, Ky., Sept. 16, 2010.

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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Wednesday that her personal credit card information and the website of her political action committee were attacked online by supporters of the document-dumping website WikiLeaks.

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The story was first reported by ABC News' Jake Tapper. Palin, the 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, told Tapper about the alleged cyberattacks in an e-mail.

Previously, Palin criticized WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, calling him "an anti-American operative with blood on his hands."

On Wednesday, Palin wrote to Tapper that hackers in London tried to shut down the website for SarahPAC, Palin's political action committee; however, a CBSNews.com producer was able to access the site without problem Wednesday evening.

Tapper reported that Palin said the personal credit card accounts for her and her husband Todd Palin were "disrupted."

"No wonder others are keeping silent about Assange's antics," Palin wrote in her e-mail to Tapper. "This is what happens when you exercise the First Amendment and speak against his sick, un-American espionage efforts."

Throughout the day Wednesday, so-called "hacktivists" claimed responsibility for causing severe technological problems for credit card companies MasterCard and Visa after they stopped collecting donations for WikiLeaks.

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[fedup12]

OMG OMG OMG. Wikileaks is getting all this press. I wonder if I can get in on any of it.

[ariuszme]

why is everyone spreading this FALSE RUMOR about palin's credit cards being hacked? this is a lie, a falsehood. it is WRONG.

actually so far wikileaks has NOT "hacked" or broken into anything.. they've simply attacked websites by overload visits which crash the servers.. they in no way have hacked into anything (yet).

quite unprofessional for a cbs site to claim this ******** lie

[911SRVIVR]

He isn't american, the stupid woman. Why can't she do her research before she speaks?

[WeHappyFew]

For the whack jobs out there I admit I'm a little trusting but Im guessing without seeing the certificates that Obama wasn't flipping burgers as an illegal African immigrant worker in Hawaii when he was asked to edit the Harvard law review and cited as one to watch by several leading international business and political publications( Ask Sarah. She reads 'all of em').

[WeHappyFew]

I take it this is the same Anonymous that took on a certain famously litigious religious organisation. Certainly increasing their brand profile. Interesting.
I doubt she would be a target especially as a bored juvenile delinquent had already so effortlessly hacked her emails and she is so good at shooting herself in the foot. I can't see them being interested in her.
However if people think Anonymous and other cyber groups take her seriously she gains something in political weight.

[san850]

She just thinks she's so special that the hackers would single her out? Excuse me, Sarah, but this whole Wikileaks thing is much bigger than you and, by the way, your narcissism is showing again.

[rktsci3127]

Guess this is what happens if you tell it like it is. I do hope the hackers keep Visa and Mastercard down until after Christmas.

[brian_norwood]

I love that picture of Palin. What is she, some kind of faith healer? LOL

[san850]

I imagine it was taken at the recent seance with Christine O'Donnell?

[kcjwind]

by dinkydog1 December 9, 2010 9:06 AM EST
CBS, I really don't care if Wikileak people poured gas on her and set her on fire, so could you cut the Palin stories to maybe one a week.
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That seems harsh. Oh, and they will keep having stories on Palin as long as losers like you keep posting about it.

[brian_norwood]

I find this whole thing very interesting. Is this our first real cyber war?