White House officials have begun examining emails associated with a third and previously unreported email account on Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trumps private domain, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Hundreds of emails have been sent since January from White House addresses to accounts on the Kushner family domain, these people said. Many of those emails went not to Kushners or Ivanka Trumps personal addresses but to an account they both had access to and shared with their personal household staff for family scheduling.
The emailswhich include non-public travel documents, internal schedules and some official White House materialswere in many cases sent from Ivanka Trump, her assistant Bridges Lamar and others who work with the couple in the White House. The emails to the third account were largely sent from White House accounts but occasionally came from other private accounts, one of these people said.
The existence of additional accounts on the family domain beyond the two personal accounts used by Kushner and Ivanka Trump and reported earlier raises new questions about the extent of personal email use by the couple during their time as White House aides. Their use of private email accounts for White House business also raises concerns about the security of potentially sensitive government documents which have been forwarded to private accounts.
The family has declined to say what privacy measures have been placed on the domain, but a person familiar with the set-up said some security measures were taken when it was installed.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/02/jared-kushner-email-account-white-house-243389Many details about the ijkfamily.com email domain remain unclear, including what type of security protections are in place.
The accounts would have been more secure if they relied on commercial email providers rather than a private server, some experts say. If youre using a commercial email service provider, youre really reducing the risk, according to Lewis, because the major tech companies that run platforms like Gmail and Outlook typically have robust security teams. If youre doing your own email, it gets to be a lot easier [to hack], he added.