Sarah Palin Email 'Hacker' Gets Year in Jail 6.82K Jim Newell 11/12/10 01:27PM Filed to: Trials Trials sarah palin David Kernell Tennessee Courts Email Hacking Appic tweet Fb David Kernell, the Tennessee student who "hacked" into Sarah Palin's Yahoo! account two years ago by correctly answering her easy password-reminder question — a crime that Palin has compared to Watergate — has been sentenced to a year in jail.