The FBI has been focusing its investigation on the private email server that Clinton had installed at her home in New Jersey during her tenure as Secretary of State.
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Unlike the Russia-linked phishing emails, the cyberattacks from China, Germany and South Korea were attempting to access Clinton’s server directly.
There were conflicting accounts as to whether the development could lead to recovery of any of Clinton’s more than 31,000 personal emails, which she said she deleted from her private server upon turning over her work-related emails to the State Department, at its request, in December 2014.
Hackers from China, Germany, and South Korea attempted to raid Hillary Clinton’s private email server which contained tens of thousands of emails – many of them classified – in 2013 and 2014. Now we have confirmation hack attacks did in fact occur. Intriguingly, agents sifting through the emails Clinton said were “personal” in nature have reportedly handed a few over to investigators – indicating that they are relevant in at least a few way to the FBI’s ongoing investigation.
“The Justice Department’s independent review is led by nonpolitical, career professionals, and Ron Johnson has no business interfering with it for his own partisan ends”, campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said in the statement.
But the newly discovered attack didn’t just target Clinton’s email address – it was directed at her server.
According to Johnson’s letter, the Clinton Executive Services Corp. instructed Platte River to reduce how much email data was being stored during each server backup. “And if you have a private server, it’s very likely that you would be compromised”.
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. This same Secretary of State decided it was okay to get classified information sent to her email, even though there are former government workers out there who say the information was “born classified.” Ron Johnson. The Wisconsin Republican sent a letter to Datto’s CEO this week inquiring about their handling of Clinton’s data.
SECNAP is not a well-known computer security provider. The company’s website and promotional literature describe CloudJacket as a monitoring system created to counter unauthorized intrusions and monitor threats around the clock. It is not known if she did.
CNN reported that Johnson said in his letter that “questions still remain as to whether Datto actually transferred the data from its off-site datacenter to the on-site server, what data was backed up and whether Datto wiped the data after it was transferred”.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now investigating if Clinton’s email arrangement endangered national security.
