release<\/a>\u00a0of another 100 pages from their investigation into Hillary Clinton\u2019s private email servers is the revelation that files from Sidney Blumenthal ended up on a Romanian server. This has some wondering if Clinton\u2019s servers were compromised.<\/p>\nAccording to the FBI, in February or March 2015, an unnamed company was given $32,000 to investigate whether Clinton\u2019s server had been hacked. They found files from Blumenthal\u2019s server in Romania.<\/p>\n
The FBI investigation determined that around two-dozen emails exchanged between Blumenthal and Clinton contained classified materials.<\/p>\n
This past July, FBI Director James Comey acknowledged that while there was no\u00a0\u201cdirect evidence\u201d<\/em>\u00a0of Clinton being \u201csuccessfully hacked<\/em>,\u201d the agency was also \u201cunlikely to see such direct evidence.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\u201cWe do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial e-mail accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account,<\/em>\u201d Comey said.<\/p>\nWhile the Romanian server had no emails from Blumenthal, the FBI claimed it had about 200 Word, Excel, and other files of his. Allegedly one of those files was classified, as it contained the names of alleged Libyan jihadists and a “portion of the file was in Russian.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\nThe file was not found to have originated from Blumenthal\u2019s personal server. It contained\u00a0\u201ca reference to an IP address range that included the IP address of Clinton’s server.”<\/em><\/p>\nSince the file was not sent from Blumenthal, a third party may have accessed his server and located at least one classified document.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s worth noting that Romanian hacker Marcel Lazar, better known as Guccifer, claimed that he had hacked both Blumenthal as well as Clinton. He has since recanted the claim of hacking Clinton\u2019s server, but he did hack Blumenthal in 2013.<\/p>\n