Hillary’s private email company got hacked by foreigners — while she was secretary of state

If there’s a bad thing that hasn’t yet been written about Hillary Clinton’s private email scandal, don’t worry: It will be. At the rate things are going, it seems inevitable.

Breitbart News reported this week that the company Clinton hired to manage her email network suffered a “massive international hack” while Clinton was serving as secretary of state. Among other concerns, the episode highlights the logic behind laws that require government employees to maintain their communications only on federal networks.

“The company that Hillary Clinton paid to manage her private email network was the victim of a massive international hack during the period in which Clinton was employing it, Breitbart News has learned,” the website reported Tuesday:

Hillary Clinton used the company Internap as the internet service provider for her private email account during her tenure as Secretary of State. Internap, based in Atlanta, has a facility in Manhattan, near the the physical location of the IP address for clintonemail.com.

In March 2011, the security company RSA was hacked. The hackers got into the company’s system through a malware-infested email sent to an employee, then installed a “backdoor” and stole data. RSA called it “an extremely sophisticated cyber attack.”

… Five different “blocks” of Internap hosted services — which could include websites, email services, and email-storage and cloud services — were hit in the 2011 attack. A computer expert tells Breitbart News that Internap networks could have been used by the hackers to help it get to RSA or other targets.

China was the home source of 299 of the 338 command and control networks that the hackers used to carry out the attacks, according to an analysis at the time by cyber security expert Brian Krebbs.

Clinton’s Internap service was one of more than 760 other companies and groups affected by the hack, Breitbart notes. The company did not reply to Breitbart’s request for comment.

Clinton served as secretary of state from January 2009 until February 2013. She set up and maintained her government email communications from a privately run server, one completely off the grid of federal communications systems, from the time she began her tenure until the time she left the State Department.

In addition to the massive 2011 hack, Clinton’s email data was also compromised on at least one other known occasion.

“Clinton’s email domain clintonemail.com is managed by a company called Network Solutions, which manages domains and provides a service that Clinton uses to protect the anonymity of the people running her server from mandatory disclosures on databases,” Breitbart explained.

That company endured a 2010 attack in which half a million of its domains were hit with malware, “as part of a hack involving a Ukranian ‘attack server.’”

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