Private Email Server Made Hillary Clinton Vulnerable To Hackers, But The State Dept Isn't Much Safer
By using private email, Hillary Clinton put her data at risk every time she clicked on a link or downloaded an attachment as secretary of state. But the American public, and even Clinton herself, will probably never know if hackers were able to monitor her communication from 2009 to 2013, the four years she served as the most powerful U.S. diplomat.
Even top-level technology companies like Twitter know enough to outsource their email for security reasons, sources said, so it shouldn't be a surprise that there's a national outcry over Clinton's decision to ditch the protected State Department email system in favor of her own server, clintonemail.com. Clinton, who many expect will seek the Democratic nomination for president in 2016, exclusively used the address HDR22@clintonemail.com to communicate both personal and top-level Cabinet business, the New York Times first reported Monday. Her judgment has shocked Internet security experts and transparency advocates, who have suggested the decision was motivated by a desire to avoid public disclosure requests.
