Hacked: Podesta warned about weak cybersecurity in 2008

Published November 3, 2016 11:32pm ET



Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta was included on an email thread warning against using personal addresses for handling “sensitive” information in 2008, but apparently kept the information he received in his personal Gmail account as late as this year.

The November 2008 emails were exchanged between members of President Obama’s transition team. They included future White House chief of staff Denis McDonough and Daniel Tarullo, who was appointed two months later to serve on the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors.

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