The FBI released a
treasure trove of new documents related to the investigation of Hillary Clinton's
private email server on Friday, revealing, among other discoveries, that
information from Clinton's server was found on the dark web.
The documents also
reveal that hackers likely compromised Clinton's server, a detail the
government has not publicly confirmed, the Washington Examiner reported.
What are the details?
The documents, released via the FBI's "The
Vault," include notes from an independent review that reveal
the Romanian hacker known as "Guccifer" potentially compromised
Clinton's unprotected email server when he breached a separate server operated
by longtime Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal.
"It is
inescapable that a security breach and a violation of basic server security
occurred here, both with Mr. Blumenthal and Mrs. Clinton," the notes
state.
Shockingly, the notes
confirm Guccifer used a server in Russia to conduct his hacking
"penetration," leaving the U.S. intelligence community to conclude
there is a "high possibility" Russian officials retained a copy of
the hacked information and data.
Of most concern, an
Excel spreadsheet with "targeting data" from Clinton's server was
discovered on the Dark Web, a highly encrypted layer of the internet used by
criminals and hackers. The notes call the document's presence on the dark web a
"major loss to the Intelligence Community."
To make matters worse,
the document in question was found stripped of its classification
"collars," which should have been the government's highest level of
classification: Top Secret.
"If it is
determined by the by the FBI that this file ever was overtly classified, it
will serve as a potential 'smoking gun document,'" the notes say.
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