Hacker apologises for breaking into Romney's e-mail account

Washington, June 7 (ANI): Apparent Mitt Romney's e-mail hacker has apologized in a letter addressed to Romney for his mistake.

"I engaged in an egregious violation of another persons privacy, a violation made all the worse by way of your being a public figure who has so little privacy to begin with, a figure for whom what privacy can be found is doubtless a valuable gift," the hacker said.

"A gift I took away. For this I am sorry. When I hacked in it struck me as funny at first, but now... I have never felt as bad about something I have done as I feel right now," ABC quoted the hacker as saying.

The Secret Service is investigating a person who had hacked into a Hotmail account once used by Romney, ABC News reports.he hacker, whose identity is unknown publicly, read a Wall Street Journal story about the e-mails Romney sent as the governor of Massachusetts from the address mittromney@hotmail.com.

The hacker said that he guessed the security question on the e-mail account asking about Romney's favorite pet, which he then used to get into Romney's old inbox.

The Romney campaign declined to comment following the hacker's apology.

The hacker said he or she had deleted the files that were downloaded and changed the password and security question to prevent others from getting into it.he Secret Service confirmed that it is working on the case.

"We are investigating and it is an opening investigation," Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan said. (ANI)