IT firm hired by Hillary Clinton: It's 'highly likely' there's a backup of emails she deleted
The IT firm hired by Hillary Clinton to oversee her private server has
told ABC it is "highly likely" a backup copy of the server was made, meaning any emails Clinton deleted before she handed the server over to investigators may still be accessible.
Being able to access the deleted emails via a backup server would most likely make investigators' job much easier, cybersecurity expert Alex McGeorge of Immunity Inc. told Business Insider on Friday.
"The reason you back up a server is fairly straightforward, and it would be standard practice to do so," McGeorge said.
"There's a lot they [investigators] can learn from the server, but not having the backups would probably make that job much more difficult."
Having access to the server's backups could also give investigators "a better timeline," McGeorge said, and allow them to see whether her private account was ever breached by hackers.
ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl said the firm hired by Clinton in 2013, the Denver-based Platte River Networks, said it was "cooperating with the FBI.”