Emails may be recoverable as Clinton server wasn’t ‘wiped’

The company that managed Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private email server says it has no knowledge that the server was “wiped”. If it wasn’t, 30,000 emails Clinton says she deleted could be recovered, according to a report in The Washington Post.

Clinton has said that personal correspondence sent and received during the four years she was secretary of state were deleted. About as many emails pertaining to administration business have been turned over to the State Department, which is reviewing them and releasing them periodically, by court order.

Deleting emails is not the same as wiping a server. Deleted emails can be recovered from a device that has not been ‘wiped’ (PC Magazine defines ‘wiping’ as “a security measure when selling, giving away or retiring a computer. A file wipe completely erases the data from the hard disk.”)