Hillary Clinton’s Email Account Unencrypted and Vulnerable During China Trip

Within Hillary Clinton’s email controversy storm appears another security threat. Clinton’s private server could have been compromised by Chinese hackers.
Hillary Clinton’s Email Account Unencrypted and Vulnerable During China Trip
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks during at an unrelated joint conference with Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012. AP Photo/Feng Li, Pool
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Within the Hillary Clinton email storm of controversy emerges another potentially major security threat: Clinton’s private server—which she has come under fire for using for personal and work-related emails—could have been compromised by Chinese hackers, experts say.

For three months at the start of her term as secretary of state in 2009, Clinton’s server was not encrypted, leaving it vulnerable to eavesdropping by hackers.

And according to her travel history, on Feb. 20 that year, she took an inopportune two-day business trip to Beijing while her email was still unprotected.

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