The State Department objected Thursday to a Romanian hacker’s claim that he breached Hillary Clinton’s private email server during her tenure as secretary of state.
“We don’t have any reason to believe that [his claim] might be true,” State Department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters. The spokesman refused to further comment on “the security of the server.”
Toner’s statement sounded similar to one released Wednesday by Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon, who said that it was “unfathomable” that the hacker, who goes by Guccifer, breached the server.
“There is absolutely no basis to believe the claims made by this criminal from his prison cell,” Fallon said.
Guccifer said Wednesday that he easily hacked into Clinton’s email, one day after the former secretary of state asserted that her server had never been breached by foreign hackers.
“For me, it was easy,” Guccifer told Fox News. He bolstered his assertion in an interview with NBC News, calling Clinton’s server “an open orchid on the Internet.”
