Clinton Server Faced Foreign Hacking Attempts

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks… Most classified networks are equipped with audit systems that allow security managers to check who has accessed intelligence or foreign policy secrets.

Datto was hired to provide backups for the Clinton e-mail accounts starting in May 2013 by Platte River Networks, the Colorado-based tech firm hired earlier that year by the Clinton family to manage the system after Hillary Clinton concluded her term as secretary.

“I just don’t see what my authority under FOIA would be”, said Judge Walton, referring to the Freedom of Information Act.

A few employees of the company that maintained the server say they felt pressured by her team to reduce how long they keep data from the server backed up.

In the letter to Datto CEO Austin McChord, Johnson asked the company to produce any communications it had relating to Clinton’s server, according to McClatchy.

The matter has triggered an FBI investigation into the security of the personal server.

The request to Clinton attorney David Kendall, dated October. 2, comes weeks after the State Department obtained a series of emails that Clinton did not turn over despite her claim that she sent the agency all her work-related correspondence. 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. However, according to the article, “there was a period of more than three months from June to October 2013 when that protection had not been installed[.]” The AP helpfully adds: “That means her server was possibly vulnerable to cyberattacks during that time”.

The judges involved are finally beginning to grapple with the big legal questions about Mrs. Clinton’s arrangement.

The Petraeus emails, first discovered by the Defense Department and then passed to the State Department’s inspector general, start on January 10, 2009, with Clinton using the older email account.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is now reportedly working with Datto directly to recover whatever data still resides in the company’s cloud network.

Congressional investigators view the decision to delete her emails as a red flag, and believe Clinton may have violated numerous laws by storing and transmitting classified data on her private system. “If they are doing that tracking of email since she was secretary of state, then they would be looking at any email that could have crossed into a State server”.

In September, the AP reported that Russian hackers tried to break into Clinton’s server at least five times by sending malicious emails.