The newspaper reported the use of Mike Pence’s personal email for official purposes

Mike Pence

Vice-President Mike Pence, occupying the post of Governor of the state of Indiana used for business purposes personal e-mail, which in the summer yla hacked. This was reported by the Indianapolis Star newspaper.

According to the publication, the Pens discussed with his advisers with the help of personal mail a wide range of topics, including security issues. In a letter to chief adviser Pence for security gave him the information the FBI regarding the arrest of several terrorism suspects.

In the summer of 2016 Inbox Pence has been hijacked, Radoslava on his behalf a false message that he was robbed during tours to the Philippines and took the money, credit cards and cell phone. The Pens were later forced to apologize to the recipients of the mailing and got himself another account.

The publication notes that Indiana laws do not prohibit the officials to use for official purposes personal account. The press service of the Pence, commenting on this information, also stressed that Vice-President had not violated the law.

Mike Pence was Governor of Indiana from January 2013 until his transfer to the White house in January 2017.

In 2015, the scandal around Hillary Clinton, who at the time was one of the leading contenders in the presidential candidates from the Democrats for the 2016 elections. It turned out that during the tenure as Secretary of state she violated Federal law prescribing conduct the correspondence through a special government email system with additional protection. Instead, she used a private e-mail account belonging to her were on the server.

This has raised fears that the secret information held in the channel could fall to hackers. However, Clinton argued that confidential data via email is not shared. As by law all the letters of the Secretary of state must give to the archive of the state Department, she later gave to the FBI, deleting personal correspondence. Later it became known that the number of letters received by Clinton, is classified top secret.

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