Clinton's email was probably hacked, say IT specialists

New York

WHEN FBI director James Comey said on Tuesday that his investigators had no "direct evidence" that Hillary Clinton's email account had been "successfully hacked", both private IT specialists and federal investigators immediately understood his meaning: It very likely had been breached, but the intruders were far too skilled to leave evidence of their work.

Mr Comey described, in fairly blistering terms, a set of email practices that left Mrs Clinton's systems wide open to Russian and Chinese hackers…