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obama's gmail email hacked

I’ve seen some reports that Obama’s email has been hacked. Screenshots show conversations between McCain and Obama, but is this legit? Looking at the email address the Gmail account appears to be a barry.obama1961@gmail.com. I find it hard to believe Obama picked an email address like this. No official word has been released from the Obama campaign regarding this matter. I suspect this is a hoax.

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Just before the Pennsylvania primaries, Obama’s tech team was patching up security whole in his website. Obama’s website had been hacked. The site forwarded all traffic to the Hilary Clinton website instead. The XSS exploit in the community section of Barack Obama’s site was to blame, along with some cross post injections.

Basically the site’s database stores text from website pages such as chat forums. SQL code and other code can be injected into the forms on the web pages to make the back-end server do various thing. In this case, executable code or SQL was probably injected, forwarding the site to Hilary Clinton’s.

This is typical actions from a cracker during times such as these.