Oh, John Podesta. To think you could have kept your email correspondence private if you had simply wondered why a Google account had sent you an email from a "googlemail.com" address.

Emails from the Clinton campaign chairman have been slowly released to the world by Wikileaks in the lead-up to the presidential election, providing fodder for news stories at all kinds of outlets.

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Those emails may well have been accessed through a simple phishing email. And although we don't know whether this is the email that led to the hack of Podesta's account, it seems like it very well could be.

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A couple of fishy (phishy?) things about the email should probably have set off alarms for Podesta and the rest of Clinton's team.

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First off, "googlemail," the account from which this phishing email was sent, is not a thing.

Second, any email with the subject line "someone has your password" should trigger all sorts of bells and whistles.

In Podesta's defense, though, a member of the Clinton campaign's help desk sent an email noting the phishing email was a "legitimate" email. In the email, the IT worker provided a Google link so Podesta could change his email account information safely. It also noted Podesta should turn on two-factor authentication.

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It is possible whoever read the email, still clicked on the original phishing link in the email chain below. If Podesta's information was entered into the phishing address, it was game over.

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