Mike Pence Used His AOL Email For Official Business as Indiana's Governor—And It Got Hacked

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Vice President Mike Pence routinely used a private email address to conduct political affairs as governor of Indiana, according to the Indianapolis Star….“It’s one thing to have an AOL account and use it to send birthday cards to grandkids,’ said Justin Cappos, a computer security professor at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. ‘But it’s another thing to use it to send and receive messages that are sensitive and could negatively impact people if that information is public.”