Fallout from Hillary Clinton's emails hasn't stopped. | AP Photo Campaign dismisses claim hacker accessed Clinton email server

Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign is dismissing claims from a Romanian hacker known as “Guccifer” that he managed to gain access to the private server where Clinton stored her emails while secretary of state.

Hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar, who was extradited to the U.S. in March to face computer crime charges, told NBC News and Fox News in jailhouse interviews that he looked at information on Clinton’s server after obtaining details about the set-up from emails Clinton exchanged with Clinton outside adviser Sidney Blumenthal. The interview is set to air Sunday.


“It was like an open orchid on the Internet,” Lazar told NBC, claiming there were “hundreds of folders.”

“For me, it was easy. It was easy for me, for everybody” to get into the system, he told Fox.

Lazar told Fox he only looked at that server roughly twice because it was not interesting to him. “I was not paying attention. For me, it was not like the Hillary Clinton server, it was like an email server she and others were using with political voting stuff,” he said.

Clinton campaign spokesman Brian Fallon said Lazar is untrustworthy and his assertions defied logic in light of the fact that Blumenthal’s emails were published online several years ago in a hack attributed to Guccifer. He is now under indictment over that hack and others, including one that involved a family member of Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush.

“There is absolutely no basis to believe the claims made by this criminal from his prison cell,” Fallon said of Lazar. “In addition to the fact he offers no proof to support his claims, his descriptions of Secretary Clinton’s server are inaccurate. It is unfathomable that he would have gained access to her emails and not leaked them the way he did to his other victims.”

“We have received no indication from any government agency to support these claims, nor are they reflected in the range of charges that Guccifer already faces and that prompted his extradition in the first place. And it has been reported that security logs from Secretary Clinton’s email server do not show any evidence of foreign hacking,” the Clinton campaign spokesman added.

In the interview with NBC News’ Cynthia McFadden, the Romanian hacker dismissed the Democratic front-runner’s claims that her use of a home server during her tenure as secretary of state was safe.

“When Hillary Clinton says that her server is absolutely safe — you’re laughing,” McFadden started, according to a transcript released prior to the “Dateline” premiere.

“That’s a lie,” Lazar disputed from a prison in Bucharest where he was being held before being sent to the U.S., according to NBC.

Lazar ultimately did not provide documentation to support his claims, according to the NBC report. An internal FBI review of Clinton’s email records did not indicate traces of hacking, a source familiar with the situation told POLITICO.

Fox News correspondent Catherine Herridge spoke to Lazar by phone at the Alexandria, Virginia, jail where he is being held. He is scheduled to face trial in September on the U.S. indictment.

