Datto, of Norwalk, provided data backup services to Platte River Networks, the firm Clinton hired to maintain her email server.
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The attacks Johnson mentions in his letter are different, according to government officials familiar with them.
Remember, Clinton has said multiple times that there was never classified material in her personal email.
The Connecticut company that recently found itself possibly holding a few of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails also received $6 million in economic assistance from the state in 2014.
The company handling Clinton’s account, Platte River Networks, said no actions were taken in response to the warnings from the subcontractor, Datto, because the Federal Bureau of Investigation instructed Platte River Networks not to make any changes during its review of the email’s security, the Post reports. She was said to have deleted more than 30,000 emails from the server that she has claimed were not pertinent to her job as the nation’s top diplomat and has turned over another 30,000 to the State Department for archiving.
Datto did not know it was backing up Clintons’ email server until mid August, the source said.
“Datto is working with the FBI to provide data in conjunction with its investigation”, said Michael Fass, general counsel at Datto, according to WaPo. In 2014, the company reported that a malicious software originating in China was detected “running an attack against” Clinton’s server.
When Datto acknowledged that was the case, a Platte River employee replied in an email: “This is a problem”.
Johnson said that means that “Datto apparently possessed a backup of the server’s contents since June 2013”.
The investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server has expanded to include a second company that was storing data from the server.
It’s also unclear if Datto wipes old information or if that information doesn’t expire.
To “wipe” data from a server, experts say, requires overwriting it with encrypted data several times or taking similar steps.
Platte River spokesman Andy Boian told Politico, however, that this went against the firm’s initial agreement with the Clinton team.
That’s according to a letter from Republican Senator Ron Johnson, that quotes emails from Platte River Networks employees.
One employee started to think that move “really is covering up” something related to Clinton’s emails.
In March, a US House of Representatives committee requested access to Clinton’s server to ensure that she had not deleted any work-related emails.
It was here that a Platte River employee voiced suspicions about a cover-up and sought to protect the company.
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Judicial Watch argues that as the head of an agency, who exclusively used that system, and had a State Department employee service it, the server belongs to the government, and it should be government employees who decide which messages are government records.
