John David Podesta, Chairman of the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, announces to supporters that the Democratic candidate will wait for the final vote count before making any announcement, at the end of the election night event at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2016. (Anthony Behar/Sipa USA/TNS)
WASHINGTON: A new reality has set in to political campaigns: Candidates must expect that their private e-mail accounts will be hacked, and the contents splashed onto the Internet, possibly squandering their chances of victory or exposing personal secrets.
E-mail hacking is now an entrenched tactic for practitioners of political sabotage.
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