Tuesday, January 2, 2018

Top Hillary Aide Implicated

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Huma Abedin forwarded sensitive State Department emails, including passwords

to government systems, to her personal Yahoo email account before every single

Yahoo account was hacked, a Daily Caller News Foundation analysis of emails

released as part of a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch shows.

Abedin, the top aide to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, used her

insecure personal email provider to conduct sensitive work. This guarantees

that an account with high-level correspondence in Clinton’s State Department

was impacted by one or more of a series of breaches — at least one of which

was perpetrated by a “state-sponsored actor.”

The U.S. later charged Russian intelligence agent Igor Sushchin with hacking

500 million Yahoo email accounts. The initial hack occurred in 2014 and

allowed his associates to access accounts into 2015 and 2016 by using forged

cookies. Sushchin also worked for the Russian investment bank Renaissance

Capital, which paid former President Bill Clinton $500,000 for a June 2010

speech in Moscow.

A separate hack in 2013 compromised three billion accounts across multiple

Yahoo properties, and the culprit is still unclear. “All Yahoo user accounts

were affected by the August 2013 theft,” the company said in a statement.

Read more at http://trumptrainnews.com/articles/top-hillary-aide-implicated#VUAPWwz7G5tSysCk.99

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