The matter has triggered an FBI investigation into the security of the personal server.
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A Datto official said that investigators may be able to recover the emails if the data existed at the time the company was hired in May 2013 and had not been altered since.
This new revelation came about as the Senate’s Homeland Security Committee sent an official letter to Datto demanding that they explain their actions with regard to how Clinton’s email data was backed up and processed.
“Datto was never supposed to have a cloud”, Boian said. “When we confronted them (Datto) about this, they didn’t have an answer”.
18, 2015 photo shows the front entrance of Platte River Networks, a Colorado-based technology services company that began managing Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private computer server in 2013, north of downtown Denver.
The source said, however, that Platte River had set up a 60-day retention policy for the backup server, meaning that any emails to which incremental changes were made at least 60 days prior would be deleted and “gone forever”.
The controversy has hung over her on the campaign trail as she seeks the Democratic presidential nomination for the 2016 election.
Johnson, whose committee is investigating Clinton’s email arrangement, has sent a letter to Victor Nappe, CEO of SECNAP, the company that provided the monitoring software installed on Clinton’s server. He even points out Platte River workers may have been anxious about the data backups, according to one employee email. His company then alerted the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The watchdog group asked U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan to order Undersecretary for Management Patrick Kennedy, a 42-year State Department veteran, to testify in the Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Judicial Watch has filed over Clinton’s private emails, Politico reports. Clinton’s last day as secretary of state was four months earlier. “We were told you are handling a family server, which we do all the time”.
This addresses a question that arose as soon as Datto’s involvement with the former Secretary of State’s computer system was revealed a few days ago: isn’t it unwise to broadcast data that includes classified and Top Secret material across the Internet?
“In the letter to Austin McChord, Datto’s chief executive officer, Johnson asked the firm to produce copies of all communications it had relating to Clinton’s server, including Platte River and the Clinton firm”.
The department has sent a letter to Clinton’s lawyer David Kendall, asking Clinton to search for and hand over any relevant emails that she has yet to give them, CBS News confirms. That employee also asked co-workers to find the reduction request from the Clinton team. The intention was to get Clinton’s request on the record.
“Starting to think this whole thing really is covering up a few shaddy [sic] shit”, the employee wrote.
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“Datto is working with the FBI to provide data in conjunction with its investigation”, said Michael Fass, general counsel at Datto.
