--- title: Hillary Clinton email: Tech Firm Said Emails Could Be Hacked description: A technology firm warned Hillary Clinton's team over the summer that her private email server was vulnerable to hackers. canonical: https://time.com/4066029/clinton-email-hackers/ author: Tessa Berenson article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-10-08T11:27:50.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T11:37:44.712Z article:section: Politics og:title: Tech Firm Warned Clinton Emails Were Susceptible To Hackers og:description: A technology firm warned Hillary Clinton's team over the summer that her private email server was vulnerable to hackers. og:url: https://time.com/4066029/clinton-email-hackers/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt865f3f03bfba07d0/69886768e20a874695a8daa4/hillary-clinton4.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Hillary Clinton og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Tech Firm Warned Clinton Emails Were Susceptible To Hackers twitter:description: A technology firm warned Hillary Clinton's team over the summer that her private email server was vulnerable to hackers. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt865f3f03bfba07d0/69886768e20a874695a8daa4/hillary-clinton4.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Clinton Emails Were Susceptible To Hackers, Tech Firm Warned  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Oct 8, 2015 11:27 AM UTC  Hillary Clinton speaks during a community forum in Davenport, Iowa, on Oct. 6, 2015. Hillary Clinton speaks during a community forum in Davenport, Iowa, on Oct. 6, 2015.Charlie Neibergall—AP  by [Tessa Berenson](https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/)  ## Tessa Berenson Oct 8, 2015 11:27 AM UTC A technology firm that worked on Hillary Clinton’s email server warned the former Secretary of State’s team over the summer that her private email was vulnerable to hackers. Datto, a technology subcontractor that specializes in backing up data, told Platte River Networks, the company managing Clinton’s account, to upgrade security on the email server in August, [the Washington _Post_ reports](http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-e-mails-were-vulnerable-to-hackers-tech-firm-warned/2015/10/07/b1fb42e0-6cfe-11e5-b31c-d80d62b53e28%5Fstory.html). Representatives from Datto were worried that Clinton’s server would be targeted once it became infamous over the summer. But Platte River Networks did not upgrade any security on the server because, according to a spokesperson, the FBI had given express orders not to change anything on the system. Datto says there is no evidence that the system was hacked. The revelation comes amidst an ongoing controversy over Clinton using a private email server during her time as Secretary of State. Clinton has said that confidential data was never put at risk. \[[_Washington Post_](http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/clinton-e-mails-were-vulnerable-to-hackers-tech-firm-warned/2015/10/07/b1fb42e0-6cfe-11e5-b31c-d80d62b53e28%5Fstory.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4066029/clinton-email-hackers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4066029/clinton-email-hackers/"},"headline":"Clinton Emails Were Susceptible To Hackers, Tech Firm Warned","datePublished":"2015-10-08T11:27:50.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T11:37:44.712Z","description":"A technology firm warned Hillary Clinton's team over the summer that her private email server was vulnerable to hackers.","url":"https://time.com/4066029/clinton-email-hackers/","keywords":["Hillary Clinton","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt865f3f03bfba07d0/69886768e20a874695a8daa4/hillary-clinton4.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Tessa Berenson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/tessa-berenson/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt865f3f03bfba07d0/69886768e20a874695a8daa4/hillary-clinton4.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hillary Clinton","caption":"Hillary Clinton","creditText":"Charlie Neibergall—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4066029/clinton-email-hackers/","name":"Clinton Emails Were Susceptible To Hackers, Tech Firm Warned"}}]}] ```