ROMANIAN HACKER, GUCCIFER CLAIMS IT WAS "EASY" TO INFILTRATE HILLARY CLINTON'S EMAILS

A Romanian hacker known as 'Guccifer,' who posted unofficial emails sent to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has revealed how he 'easily' penetrated the Democratic frontrunner's emails.

In interviews with Fox News from a jailhouse in Alexandria, Virginia - where he is being held on cyber crime charges - Marcel Lehel Lazar, 44, told the media outlet that it was simple for him to figure out how to break into Clinton's personal email server, and he did it twice in 2013.

'For me, it was easy ... easy for me, for everybody,' he bragged to the news outlet.

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Romanian hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar (above), 44, was extradited to the U.S. from Romania last month, accused of cyber crimes. He claims he 'easily' hacked his way into Hillary Clinton's email

Lazar said he first went into journalist and Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal's email account by doing extensive research on him and then correctly guessing his security question.

He said Blumenthal's emails were 'interesting', as he was talking about 'the Middle East and what they were doing there', but it's unclear who he was talking to.

Lazar said he then would see emails from political operatives, such as Clinton, and was able to trace their IP addresses and use 'IP scanner' software to see if ports were open and email addresses 'alive.'

He claims he compromised Clinton's emails 'like twice' and said the contents 'were not interesting.'

'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.

Lazar, who goes by the cyber handle 'Guccifer' says it was 'easy' for him to break into Clinton's personal email - but he admitted that her emails weren't 'interesting'

Fox News said it could not independently confirm Lazar's claim, but spoke to security experts who said it seems plausible. 

'This sounds like the classic attack of the late 1990s. A smart individual who knows the tools and the technology and is looking for glaring weaknesses in Internet-connected devices,' Bob Gourley, a former chief technology officer (CTO) for the Defense Intelligence Agency, said. 

Lazar says he is self trained and did most of his hacking from his small village in Romania.  

'Cybersecurity expert Morgan Wright told the outlet, 'The Blumenthal account gave [Lazar] a road map to get to the Clinton server. You get a foothold in one system. You get intelligence from that system, and then you start to move.'