Clinton's email was probably hacked, say IT specialists
Risks from Clinton's practice of keeping communications on private server may be bigger issue compared to the small amount of classified info found on her system
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, and an array of others. She had no full-time cybersecurity professional monitoring her system. She took her BlackBerry everywhere she went, "sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries". Her use of "a personal email domain was both known by a large number of people and readily apparent".
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