Feds probe Palin's hacked e-mail account

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 (UPI) -- The FBI and Secret Service are investigating a second apparent hacking of Republican U.S. vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin's personal e-mail account.

The probe comes after Gawker.com published snapshots of e-mail the Alaska governor exchanged with colleagues as well as family photos, Fox News reported Thursday.

Rick Davis, Republican presidential candidate John McCain's campaign manager, in a statement called the publication "shocking invasion of the governor's privacy and a violation of law."

Both WIRED and Gawker reported members claiming to be associated with the group Anonymous took responsibility for hacking into Palin's Yahoo! account.

The hackers posted similar information on a site called Wikileaks.org, The Washington Post reported.

The latest hacking on a Yahoo! e-mail account Palin uses is separate from another private account publicized in The Washington Post last week. Palin has been criticized recently using a personal e-mail account to conduct state business.

Alaska activist Andree McLeod has filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking disclosure of e-mail messages from another Yahoo account Palin used.

"If this woman is so careless as to conduct state business on a private e-mail account that has been hacked into, what in the world is she going to do when she has access to information that is vital to our national security interests?" she asked.