Emails that President Obama sent and received were breached last year, senior officials said. Credit Zach Gibson/The New York Times
New York Times: Russian Hackers Read Obama’s Unclassified Emails, Officials Say
WASHINGTON — Some of President Obama’s email correspondence was swept up by Russian hackers last year in a breach of the White House’s unclassified computer system that was far more intrusive and worrisome than has been publicly acknowledged, according to senior American officials briefed on the investigation.
The hackers, who also got deeply into the State Department’s unclassified system, do not appear to have penetrated closely guarded servers that control the message traffic from Mr. Obama’s BlackBerry, which he or an aide carries constantly.
But they obtained access to the email archives of people inside the White House, and perhaps some outside, with whom Mr. Obama regularly communicated. From those accounts, they reached emails that the president had sent and received, according to officials briefed on the investigation.
WNU Editor: A friend of mine who use to work for RIM (now Blackberry) told me about the security behind President Obama's Blackberry account. Put it this way .... he has a dedicated server that is physically guarded by the Secret Service (my friend did not tell me where ... but I presume that it is in Canada), and the software that is used to protect and insure the privacy and reliability of President Obama's communications is probably at a level that makes it the most secured device in the world. But everyone who works for the U.S. government does not have that level of protection and security .... hence the opportunity for hackers to exploit .... which they did.
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Russian hackers accessed President Obama's unclassified emails: Report -- New York Daily News
Russian hackers read Obama's emails: report -- Al Jazeera
Report: Russian Hackers Accessed Obama's Personal Emails -- VOA
Russian hackers reportedly read some of Obama's emails last year -- The Verge
Russian hackers read Obama emails, report says -- Phys.org
