Journalists, Technology, Jail?

On Nov. 24, Philadelphia anchor Larry Mendte was sentenced to six months house arrest, three years probation, 250 hours of community service and fined $5,000 for hacking into his co-anchor, Alycia Lane's email accounts. The Philadelphia Inquirer detailed the case about the dueling anchors.

Lane had been in the news for more than a year. First she sent photos of herself in a bikini to a married NFL Network anchor (whose wife found the pictures). Shortly after Lane was arrested for punching a female cop in the face. Philadelphia Magazine wrote an in-depth article about Lane's shenanigans. Lane's life became the stuff of tabloid fodder. She was no longer just reporting the news, she became the news.
As a result, she was fired.

But if Lane wasn't already going through enough heartache, she learned her co-worker, the man she reported the news with nightly, had secretly been reading her private emails.

Mendt confessed in August to hacking into Lane's three email accounts and leaking information to the press.

How did Mendt get into Lane's email accounts? What does this say about privacy? Will access to technology change as a result of cases like this?

Journalists have used technology to improve their craft.
In this instance, technology was used in an evil and dishonest way.

Today, both Lane and Mendt are both out of a job.
They became the news. Bad news.