A representative for the Clinton campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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The State Department will publish Wednesday about 6,000 additional pages of Hillary Rodham Clintons emails, covering a timespan when US diplomacy was rocked by the leaking of thousands of confidential cables by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks and the outbreak of the Arab Spring.
Computer hackers in China, South Korea and Germany tried to attack Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s private email server after she left the US State Department in February 2013, the Associated Press reported on Thursday. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been reviewing the security of the e-mail system.
The email came to light at the same time as the revelation that a second data firm, Datto Inc., may have a private cloud back-up of all of Clinton’s emails. “Or perhaps refer the work elsewhere”, Boian said.
Datto, a technology subcontractor that specializes in backing up data, told Platte River Networks, the company managing Clinton’s account, to upgrade security on the email server in August, the Washington Post reports.
Although a spokesman for Platte River said the company never asked Datto to make copies of the emails and store them on an offsite cloud server, and claims it was never billed for the server either.
The report comes amid ongoing scrutiny over the security of Clinton’s server and the scope through which classified documents were shared over it. Clinton has said that confidential data was never put at risk.
Clinton’s irresponsible email arrangement for her official business as Secretary of State falls within the jurisdiction of the committee, but it’s good of the hack speaking on behalf of the Clinton campaign to remind us of the FBI investigation. As is the dubious fashion these days with celebrities and prominent people, Clinton has publicly apologized for using a private email system while Secretary of State. “Johnson’s letter explains that there was “confusion” among Platte River employees who realized data from Clinton’s server had been sent off-site any way ‘ “from the beginning” of the contract”. Meanwhile Clinton goes on the defensive, arguing that the Benghazi committee, which discovered the server, was formed against her to damage her politically. Clinton has said none of the emails were marked classified during her tenure.
Clinton released scores of emails in recent months in response to the criticism and a Congressional committee investigation.
Datto officials said they were first hired to work on Clinton’s system in May 2013, and anxious that potential security gaps might reach all the way back to that date.
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Johnson highlighted the vulnerability of Clinton’s private email server, which was reportedly without protection for three months before the software was installed.
