Posted on 08/13/2015 4:00:19 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Platte River Networks was used by Clinton to maintain 'homebrew' server in her New York State house which held her State Department emails
She handed over the server and a thumb drive this week to FBI after emails were found to contain 'above top secret' material
Her White House campaign is said to be in 'panic' over the growing scandal which comes out of probe into US diplomats' deaths in Benghazi
Daily Mail Online can reveal Denver, Colorado, based firm was sued for illegally accessing master database of US phone numbers
It was also accused of causing chaos to White House military advisers when their numbers stopped working as it took their numbers
Case raises questions over how Platte River Networks' ability to secure server which would have been major target for foreign spy hackers
Platte River Networks is said to have illegally accessed the master database for all US phone numbers.
It also seized 390 lines in a move that created chaos across the US government.
Among the phone numbers which the company took - which all suddenly stopped working - were lines for White House military support desks, the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy, a lawsuit claims.
Others were the main numbers for major financial institutions, hospitals and the help desk number for T2 Communications, the telecom firm which owned them.
A lawsuit filed on behalf of T2 claims that the mess took 11 days to fix and demands that Platte River pay up $360,000 in compensation.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
The internet is Hillary’s domain. We just get to play in it.
I don't suppose that just happened to happen on Sept. 11th 2012 now did it?
I worked at the Pentagon for 3.5 years and retired in 2013. One of my jobs was to monitor the monthly telephone bill and watch over the 500-odd telephone numbers. I came to realize about six months into the job, there were at least twenty numbers which could not be found within the work areas (yeah, I actually did a walk and wasted two entire days making a physical inventory).
So I did something that hadn’t been done in a decade there within that agency....I told the telephone gurus to cut off service to these twenty numbers (we were paying $21 a month for each number). Man, that got a big stink within twenty-four hours.
Half of the numbers dissolved away with no one saying anything but the other half had been taken by people as they left the agency and went to another agency.....some were upper-level people and couldn’t understand how I could cut off their service. I asked them if they worked for our group and they admitted they hadn’t been part of the agency for at least five years.
My guess is that this Tech company got brought in and given numbers back five to ten years ago, and the numbers eventually got used by non-company people as people or functions shifted from office to office or cubicle to cubicle. The company probably did an inventory like I did, and said that if their employees weren’t at that number.....they’d refuse to pay the $21 a month, so they cancelled the number. It might be that simple.
lines were down for 21 hours
Yep - and in modern times, that wiping is usually a prelude to actual physical destruction to ensure no chances are taken - the days of declassifying hard drives for re-use are long gone.
I wish the "reporters" would also do some homework - there is no classification above Top Secret.
It could be that. But why the lawsuit?
I did an audit of a local general aviation facility a few years back. We found 65 numbers that rang to buildings that had been torn down, maintenance sheds which hadn’t been used in years, and 20 which rang to an old control tower that hadn’t been used in 4 years.
Saved them about 30 grand.
Uh guys- They handed over an instrument that has classified information to a private company that doesn’t have security clearance.
They know of at least 4 classified emails therefore that’s 4 felonies for that act alone. You cannot spin that.
No need to spend time wiping drives when drives are so cheap these days.
Might as well remove them, shred them in a metal shredder and boil them down to dust.
Which is exactly what they did. No doubt.
Bump!
Only in government can crap like that be allowed to happen.
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