A former University of Tennessee student convicted of hacking into Sarah Palin's e-mail account during the 2008 campaign was sentenced to one year in prison.

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David Kernell, who was convicted in April of two counts related to hacking the former Alaska governor's personal e-mail account, was sentenced to one year and one day in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release, CNN reported Friday.

Prosecutors told the Knoxville, Tenn., court Kernell accessed Palin's e-mail account in 2008, when she was running as the Republican nominee for vice president, by resetting her password and posted screenshots containing personal information to a public Web site.

The information posted to the Web site included family photos, e-mail addresses and at least one Palin relative's cellphone number.

Kernell was not immediately taken into custody and U.S. District Judge Thomas Phillips ruled he will be able to self-report to the Bureau of Federal Prisons.