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College student, who was jailed for hacking Sarah Palin's personal email in 2008 by guessing her password, dies from multiple sclerosis at age 30 David Kernell was a 20-year-old economics major at the University of Tennessee Knoxville when he hacked into Sarah Palin's personal email account in 2008 Kernell, 30, died of complications related to progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) late Friday or early Saturday in California Successfully guessing the security answers to Palin's Yahoo! account, Kernell changed her password to 'popcorn' Under the pseudonym Rubico, Kernell posted the new password, family photos and emails to the message board 4chan While at trial, Palin called the hacking 'the most disruptive and discouraging' moment of the campaign Kernell served 10 months in a minimum-security prison for obstruction of justice because he destroyed the evidence from his computer By Matthew Wright For Dailymail.comPublished: 23:11 EST, 8 February 2018 | Updated: 01:56 EST, 9 February 2018Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5370629/Man-30-hacked-Sarah-Palins-personal-email-dies.html#ixzz56cMuIXQDFollow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
