http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/26/us/russian-hackers-read-obamas-unclassified-emails-officials-say.html
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and DAVID E. SANGER
The New York Times
APRIL 25, 2015
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.
White House officials said that no classified networks had been
compromised, and that the hackers had collected no classified information.
Many senior officials have two computers in their offices, one operating
on a highly secure classified network and another connected to the outside
world for unclassified communications.
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