A hacker who broke into the email account of country singer Miranda Lambert and selling its contents to tabloids could be going to prison. The woman, who refers to herself as "Brenda," has confessed to the hack. According to legal experts, the hacker could face substantial prison time as well as millions of dollars in civil suits.

Conservative legal activist Larry Klayman has filed a motion to a federal judge asking the official to obtain a USB flash drive that with copies of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's emails from her private server. Clinton's lawyer David Kendall has the drive in his possession. "This court has a responsibility to preserve evidence and must do so to avoid its destruction," Klayman pressed in the motion. "Importantly, plaintiff has not requested to see the documents, hard and thumb drives at this time, but simply asked that this court take them into its custody for safekeeping."

The U.S. government thinks that Russia is behind a recent online attack that took down the Joint Staff's unclassified email system. The hack took place at the end of July and has kept the system down for over a week, affecting about 4,000 mostly military personnel. The email system is expected to be fixed soon.

Twitter users are tweeting about a new feature from the social media site that is annoying them: getting email updates about their own activity on the site. Some users think it is a bug. Twitter did not respond to The Next Web about whether or not the emails were planned or not.

The Joint Staff's unclassified email system has been offline for the past week. The system was the victim of "a new sophisticated intrusion" which the government reports was likely mounted by a state actor, though they have not identified which state did the crime. The attack has left about 4,000 military personnel unable to access their email accounts. The system will likely be up and running again later today.

Microsoft has released an Outlook app for the Apple Watch. The new app allows users to access full emails and reply to messages using the phone. In addition, users can get Outlook notifications on the Apple Watch which show the body of the email body. The tool does not allow the user to reply from a notification, but the user can tap on the Outlook icon in the notification to launch the new app.

Yesware led the crowd in user satisfaction in G2 Crowd's latest email tracking report. The satisfaction scores came from 650+ reviews submitted by the software company's clients. ToutApp also made G2's leader category in the report which examined the market presence of each product based on vendor size, market share and social impact.

Yahoo is working on a new way for users to search their email inboxes. The new search tool, which rolls out over the next week, will auto suggest search terms based on what a user enters into the search box. The email attachments and links included in emails will also be indexed in the search to help bring relevant content to the top of the inbox in a search.

Google's Gmail team has released a new tool designed to hep email marketers get into the inbox. The Gmail Postmaster Tool is designed to help legitimate email marketers that send high volumes of email avoid getting caught in the spam trap. The tool comes with a new dashboard which includes visibility and insight into email delivery.

Angie's List has tapped Persado for its persuasive language technology to automatically generate emotionally engaging subject lines. For the test, the reviews site ran 16 different subject lines generated by Persado's technology based on attributes in a user's profile data. The site reported a 100 percent increase in conversions.