We would have expected this from Slick Willy. But the Lardy Hagfish, too? Ugh.
Now for the big question: did this mistake come from being nasty, incompetent or both?
And could this be EXACTLY why classified documents are NEVER to be set up on private servers?
The FBI’s Hillary Clinton investigation turned up evidence that her e-mail accounts were targeted in multiple “spear phishing” attacks, one of which may have tricked the then-Secretary of State into clicking a malicious link included in the correspondence.
An FBI investigative report released today includes a section on the “cyber targeting” of Clinton’s “personal E-mail and Associated Accounts” during her tenure at the State Department.
Though riddled with redactions, the FBI report reveals that Clinton became concerned about the legitimacy of an e-mail purportedly sent to her “from the personal e-mail of a State official.” The e-mail sent to Clinton, the FBI noted, “contained a potentially malicious link.”…
…At one point, Clinton aide Huma Abedin wrote to an associate indicating that Clinton was concerned about someone “hacking into her email” since Clinton had received an e-mail from a “known…associate” containing “a link to a website with pornographic material.”
While the FBI report does not state how Clinton knew the link in the suspect e-mail led to porn, it appears obvious that she clicked on the link.
Addressing that porn link, the FBI reported that there was “no additional information” as to whether “the specific link referenced by Abedin was used as a vector to infect Clinton’s device.”
That declaration is followed by two redacted lines. The FBI report then picks up with this statement: “Open source information indicated, if opened, the targeted user’s device may have been infected, and information would have been sent to at least three computers overseas, including one in Russia.”
Due to redactions in the report, it is unclear whether the link referred to in the open source material is the same one contained in the e-mail that was sent to Clinton and led her to “a website with pornographic material.”
Read more: The Smoking Gun
It doesn’t say who this ‘known associate’ is.
Was the ‘associate’ passing porn, because it was porn or was the associate actually helping someone gain entry to Hillary’s secure details?
