Clinton subject to hack attempts from China, Korea, Germany

In late 2014, Clinton staffers told her primary data firm Platte River Networks to reduce the number of emails that were being backed up by Datto.

Judicial Watch, a conservative public interest law firm that is suing to try to get a look at the tens of thousands of emails Mrs. Clinton deemed personal, said getting the letter from the State Department is an important step because it should be a warning to her not to delete anything she has.

In August a Platte River Networks an unnamed staff member reportedly wrote to a coworker: ‘Starting to think this whole thing really is covering up a few shaddy [sic] s****’, CNN reports.

When Datto confirmed via email that Clinton’s files were syncing to its servers, a Platte River employee replied, “This is a problem”. Then, under pressure from critics, she said she was sorry people were confused by the practice, later admitting in early September that her use of a private email system had been a mistake.

Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon told the Washington Post in a statement that with the Justice Department conducting its own review of Clinton’s server and the companies involved, “Ron Johnson has no business interfering with it for his own partisan ends”.

Republicans contend that Clinton’s use of a private email server while secretary put sensitive government information at risk of being accessed by hackers or foreign intelligence services.

But her lawyer, David Kendall, told the committee that Clinton aides had changed the server’s settings so that only emails she sent and received in the previous 60 days would be saved, according to The New York Times.

The FBI is investigating both technology companies in the Clinton email scandal. Senator Johnson seeks documents relating to the company’s work on Clinton’s server and the nature of the cyber intrusions detected.

Datto has been roped in to retrieve the data backups. The e-mail account was created in May 2013 by Platte River Networks.

The additional data, provided by Connecticut-based Datto Inc., could open a new avenue for investigators interested in recovering e-mails deleted by the former secretary of state – now the Democratic presidential front-runner – that have caught the interest of GOP lawmakers.

A security breach would have been less serious if Datto held none of Clinton’s government records.

In addition, a second tech company turned over servers that stored Clinton emails to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

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 practice was made public in March by the House Select Committee on Benghazi, which is investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Libya, and Clinton is scheduled to testify before the committee later this month.