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Romanian Hacker Claims Accessing Clinton Server was 'Easy'

<p>As I wrote last month&comma; the US government has extradited a famous Romanian hacker in an effort to prove without a doubt that Hillary&rsquo&semi;s insecure homebrew server was hacked by a third party&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The hacker&comma; who goes by the name &ldquo&semi;Guccifer&comma;&rdquo&semi; has been involved in numerous high-level security breaches in the past&period; This time&comma; he stands accused of hacking into Sidney Blumenthal&rsquo&semi;s email account during Hillary&rsquo&semi;s time as Secretary of State&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The 44-year-old hacker claims that he hacked into Hilary&rsquo&semi;s account in 2013&period; &ldquo&semi;For me it was easy&comma;&rdquo&semi; he said&period; &ldquo&semi;For me&comma; for <strong>everybody<&sol;strong>&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;Guccifer will soon stand trial in Alexandria&comma; Virginia for his cybercrimes&comma; but is aiding the FBI in hopes of reducing his sentence&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This week&comma; <em>Fox News<&sol;em> was permitted a few phone calls with the hacker&period; When asked how many times he accessed Hillary&rsquo&semi;s server&comma; Guccifer replied&comma; &ldquo&semi;&hellip&semi;like twice&period; I was not paying attention&period; For me it was not like the Hillary Clinton server&period; It was like an email server she and others were using with political voting stuff&period;&rdquo&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>Guccifer thought the emails dry and boring&comma; finding nothing embarrassing or salacious enough to share&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Despite the fact that the FBI has so far been unable to disprove or confirm Guccifer&rsquo&semi;s claims&comma; Hillary continues to deny all accusations&comma; saying it is &ldquo&semi;unfathomable&rdquo&semi; that Guccifer could have gained access to her account&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;Unfortunately in this community a lot of people make up stories and it&rsquo&semi;s hard to know what&rsquo&semi;s really true until you get into the forensics information and get hard facts&comma;&rdquo&semi; says Bob Gourley&comma; a former chief technology officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency&period; Gourley believes that&nbsp&semi;Guccifer&rsquo&semi;s claims are plausible&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&ldquo&semi;The Blumenthal account gave &lbrack;Guccifer&rsqb; a road map to get to the Clinton server&hellip&semi;You get a foothold in one system&period; You get intelligence from that system&comma; and then you start to move&comma;&rdquo&semi; adds cybersecurity expert Morgan Wright&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Guccifer admits he had to guess the answers to&nbsp&semi;security questions in order to gain access to Blumenthal&rsquo&semi;s account&period; He then used that&nbsp&semi;account as a stepping stone to access Hillary&rsquo&semi;s&colon; &ldquo&semi;For example&comma; when Sidney Blumenthal got an email&comma; I checked the email pattern from Hillary Clinton&comma; from Colin Powell&comma; from anyone else to find out the originating IP&hellip&semi;When they send a letter&comma; the email header is the originating IP usually&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He then used an &ldquo&semi;IP scanner&rdquo&semi; along with other web programs to discover which ports were open and whether the server was &ldquo&semi;alive&period;&rdquo&semi; As Guccifer progressed&comma; he found that <strong>he wasn&rsquo&semi;t alone&period;<&sol;strong>&nbsp&semi;&ldquo&semi;As far as I remember&comma; yes&comma; there were&hellip&semi;up to 10&comma; like IPs from other parts of the world&period;&rdquo&semi; &nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Guccifer isn&rsquo&semi;t a top-notch programmer&period; He doesn&&num;8217&semi;t have support from a foreign intelligence service&period; My point here is that if this nut considers it &ldquo&semi;easy&rdquo&semi; to break in to Hillary&rsquo&semi;s private server&comma; it&rsquo&semi;s all but certain that the Chinese&comma; Russians&comma; and others were reading her emails too&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The former Secretary of State&rsquo&semi;s secret server held more than 2&comma;000 emails considered &ldquo&semi;classified&rdquo&semi; and an additional 22 deemed &ldquo&semi;TOP SECRET&period;&rdquo&semi;&nbsp&semi;If Guccifer is convicted for hacking into Hillary&rsquo&semi;s email account&comma; we will have proof that she was hacked by a third party &&num;8211&semi;&nbsp&semi;which could mean Hillary is indicted as well&period;&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Editor&&num;8217&semi;s note<&sol;strong>&colon; This guy is pretty close to the lowest rung of hackers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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