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Everyone knows that Yahoo Mail is not secure and most companies including mine would fire an employee for using Yahoo Mail or G Mail for company communication.

And yes, breaking into Palin’s Yahoo account was a criminal act but I am not sure the crime was against Palin or the State of Alaska since neither owned the server that was compromised. Thus, the crime was against Yahoo and I doubt they will pursue criminal charges.

Thus, the crime was against Yahoo and I doubt they will pursue criminal charges.

Tt's not up to them to pursue criminal charges. The DOJ or whichever department state/federal would pursue the matter irregardless. As you know, the complainant also includes Sarah Palin as she is the one who was directly harmed by this theft of information.

Everyone knows that Yahoo Mail is not secure and most companies including mine would fire an employee for using Yahoo Mail or G Mail for company communication.

You MAY have a point, but I stress the word "MAY". If I send a company proprietary document over open email, I'm in trouble. If I send someone a message that says "yes, I'll make the 10am meeting", nobody cares.

The caveat here is that we really don't know how Palin was using this account. However, we do have a clue, from the hacker who broke in (excerpted from Malkin's site, which reposted the original hacker's message):

I read though the emails… ALL OF THEM… before I posted, and what I concluded was anticlimactic, there was nothing there, nothing incriminating, nothing that would derail her campaign as I had hoped, all I saw was personal stuff, some clerical stuff from when she was governor…. And pictures of her family

Indications are that Palin didn't use this account for anything of consequence...or that mere fact would have given the hacker the "scoop" he sought. Imagine if he had been able to show she was using it for sensitive internal emails...but apparently, he couldn't.