The Romanian hacker known as "Guccifer" who hacked into Hillary Clinton's private email server told Fox News that "it was easy."
"For me, it was easy ... easy for me, for everybody," Marcel Lehel Lazar, also know as "Guccifer," told Fox News' Catherine Herridge in a phone interview.
Lazar said that he first hacked into Sidney Blumenthal's AOL account in March of 2013 and used it to get into Clinton's server that he says he accessed twice. He explained that he did research on the internet and then guessed the answers to Blumenthal's security questions.
Lazar said that the security questions to Clinton's email and Blumenthal's were not the same.
"For example, when Sidney Blumenthal got an email, I checked the email pattern from Hillary Clinton, from Colin Powell from anyone else to find out the originating IP. When they send a letter, the email header is the originating IP usually," Lazar said.
He also said at the time he was not interested in the contents of Clinton's emails. Clinton's private server contained over 2,000 emails with information that is now considered classified while another 22 emails were labeled "top secret."
Lazar said that he was able to use readily available programs to see if the server was "alive" and the ports were accessible. He said that while mining data from Blumenthal that there were multiple IPs from other parts of the world on the server.
Earlier Wednesday The Hill reported that Judge Emmet Sullivan laid the ground rules for interviewing the multiple State Department employees associated with Clinton's email set up.
"If the plaintiff believes Mrs. Clinton’s testimony is required, it will request permission from the Court at the appropriate time," Sullivan said in the order.
Bryan Pagliano, the former State Department IT staffer that installed and maintained the server, has already been granted immunity by the Department of Justice. Pagliano is cooperating with the FBI.
FBI Director James Comey said that he and the agency feel no pressure to finish the probe before the Democratic National Convention this July.
Clinton has maintained her innocence and has repeatedly said that the FBI has not contacted her for an interview.
Lazar is being held in a detention center in Alexandria, Virginia, after he was extradited on federal charges relating to other cyber crimes. He spoke to Fox News in a series of recorded half-hour phone interviews.