Hacker Says He Accessed Pair Of Presidential Hopeful Romneys Online Accounts

Breach suggests Mitt Romney--or his aides--used same password across multiple Web services

Memo to presidential contenders: Lose the free Webmail accounts.
A hacker Tuesday claimed to have infiltrated the personal Hotmail [email protected] Dropbox account of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, after guessing his favorite pet security question to change the password. Gawker broke the story after receiving an email from the hacker, who said he--or she--had gleaned Romneys Hotmail address from a recent news story, although Gawker redacted the supplied password.
I hacked in after finding the answer to the security question, What is your favorite pet? It is [redacted] by the way. The password is now [redacted] ... This is also the password for the Dropbox account, said the hackers email. This is all I have gotten into. I have nothing to do with Anonymous and have never done something like this before. Goodbye.
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