Platte River has complied fully with the FBI investigation and a subsequent probe from the Senate Homeland Security Committee, which has requested a mostly different set of materials than the law enforcement agency, he said. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., raised the possibility that many of Clinton’s emails, including a few of those she withheld as private, may have been inadvertently kept by Datto, a Connecticut-based provider of email back-up devices and cloud storage.
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Johnson said that “Datto apparently possessed a backup of the server’s contents since June 2013”.
A SECNAP representative declined to comment, citing company policy. In the same letter, Johnson shared an email from one Platte River employee to another, asking if an archived of the company’s emails existed.
When Datto confirmed via email that Clinton’s files were syncing to its servers, a Platte River employee replied, “This is a problem”. But according to Politico, in August, Platte River employees realized that Clinton’s emails were syncing to Datto’s cloud server as well, though Platte River spokesperson Andy Boian said that was not in the contract and “violated the exact instruction we gave them”. That means her server was possibly vulnerable to cyberattacks during that time.
The Datto official said there is no evidence the company’s systems had been attacked.
Johnson expressed concerns about whether Datto was certified to handle classified information given the hundreds of emails that have been marked classified by the State Department in recent weeks. The e-mail account was created in May 2013 by Platte River Networks.
Yesterday, the FBI reportedly seized four additional computers from the State Department as their criminal investigation of Clinton’s private email server use continues.
It was only after March 18, Clinton has said, that she started using a private email address and private server in her capacity as secretary of state.
“When companies like Datto back up data onto the cloud, they charge for for it. We never received a bill”. 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.
The disclosures, in a letter Monday from Wisconsin Sen. The State Department, however, doesn’t seem so sure about that.
When Datto acknowledged the issue via email, a Platte River employee replied: “this is a problem”. He also asked whether Datto and its employees were authorized to store and view classified information.
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Boian, the Platte River spokesman, said he had no idea what the cover up conversation referred to, but he said, “I can tell you emphatically that Platte River Networks does not believe that any cover up has occurred”.
