(Reuters)The Hillary Clinton email scandal is often traced back to a front-page New York Times report in March 2015 — and for good reason. This is how Clinton's private email habit came to light — and also how it went largely ignored for another couple years. The Romanian hacker Marcel Lazar Lehel, known as "Guccifer," revealed Hillary Clinton's private email use by breaching the account of a Clinton adviser in 2013. [How Clinton’s email scandal took root]But Clinton's use of a private email address during her tenure as secretary of state was actually reported two years earlier. We know now that Clinton's private email use was much bigger than that.

Source: Washington Post July 05, 2016 19:24 UTC