by Evie Stone

At least one of Sarah Palin's Yahoo! email accounts appears to have been hacked, reportedly by people with ties to the anti-Scientology activist group that goes by the name "anonymous."

The McCain campaign calls it "a shocking invasion of the Governor's privacy and a violation of law" and says that the "appropriate authorities" are investigating.

There's nothing especially newsworthy (i.e. related to Troopergate) in the few emails and family photos that have been leaked thusfar. (The story first appeared on Wikileaks, but that site appears to be down now. )

The accounts were rapidly taken offline after they began making the internet rounds. That raised questions in some quarters about destruction of evidence because of recent reports that Palin conducted some state business using her personal email. But seriously. If the whole world were suddenly reading your emails, wouldn't you take down your accounts? And you're not even running for national office while trying to fight abuse-of-power allegations. (Are you?) Maybe you should change your password anyway.

More to the point, this episode is a scary reminder of how little secrecy there really is out there on the tubes, if someone wants badly enough to get into your business. And, as Jonathan Martin writes, it also provides more evidence for the GOP argument that Palin is a "smear victim."