Mitt Romney's email gets hacked?

[Eric Lyon]

More politicians apparently falling prey to email hackers. Why would a politician like Mitt Romney use a free email provider like Hotmail anyways? Didn't they learn from Sarah Palin using the free email provider Yahoo last time and getting hacked? lol... Might be time for politicians to start thinking different and maybe investing a few bucks into a personal domain name to set up a more secure email account on. Granted, that's if they can come up with better passwords and security question answers.

Everything old is new again: A tipster has emailed Gawker claiming to have hacked into Mitt Romney's private email and DropBox accounts.

You will recall that roughly four years ago, 4Chan hackers got into Sarah Palin's Yahoo! account, releasing a few private emails, photos, and her contact list. The lesson: If you're running for national office, don't use a private email that lets anyone reset the password if they can guess the city you were born in.

Mitt Romney apparently hasn't learned that lesson. According to a raft of old emails from his days as governor of Massachusetts released today by the Wall Street Journal, Romney used the address "[email protected]" to communicate with his staff as recently as 2006. According to this Associated Press story, the Hotmail account was still active as of March 2012.

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[Kate]

Why would a politician like Mitt Romney use a free email provider like Hotmail anyways?

Why would so many people (including domainers) use a free email provider like gmail anyways?

 

[Eric Lyon]

Why would so many people (including domainers) use a free email provider like gmail anyways?

Personally I think that anything business related or stemming from someone with political, authoritative, Famous status should stay away from the free email providers and spend the small yearly reg fee for a personal / business email.

The average blogger using someone elses platform like Blogger, WordPress, BlogSpot, Etc. and your average jane / joe just needing an email to keep in touch with friends & family is a bit different though. Free email providers work for them.

I suppose it really boils down to someone figuring out at what point they should become more Official and Authoritative about their email communication image.

In many cases free email providers are ideal, But they definitely lack any authoritative feel. From what I've seen, serious businesses are more apt to take a email stemming from your own domain more seriously than they will one from a free email service provider. Especially in an age when the majority of spam and scams stem from free email accounts.

Just my opinion though amongst millions of others.