"It was like an open orchid on the internet," said Lazar, according to NBC News.
Lazar gave the first clues that Hillary Clinton conducted her work as US secretary of state through a private email server, leading to an official probe initiated by the FBI and an 11-hour public testimony by Clinton on the subject.
Lazar was recently extradited to the US for hacking the email accounts of high profile US Government officials, including former presidents George Bush and George W Bush, and former secretary of state Colin Powell.
From a jail cell in Virginia, US, where he is awaiting trial, Lazar told Fox News that he gained access to Clinton`s server through the AOL account of Sidney Blumenthal, her long-time confidant.
Lazar extensively researched Blumenthal online and was able to guess his security question. Once inside the account, he was able to find the IP addresses for Clinton and Powell`s emails through the incoming messages.
This allegedly led him to the location of Clinton`s private server at her home in Chappaqua, New York.
The scandal that ensued has added to Clinton`s reputation as someone who shies away from transparency and accountability.
Despite entering the server on a couple of occasions, Lazar said the contents were "not interesting".
"I was not paying attention. For me, it wasn`t like `the Hillary Clinton server`, it was an email server she and others were using for political voting stuff," he said.
Clinton`s presidential campaign team denied the plausibility of Lazar`s story, stressing the fact that Lazar offers no proof.
"There is absolutely no basis to believe the claims," said a spokesman for Clinton. "His descriptions of Secretary Clinton`s server are inaccurate. It is unfathomable that he would have gained access to her emails and not leaked them the way he did to other victims.
"Logs from Secretary Clinton`s server do not show any evidence of foreign hacking."
The charges against Lazar do not include hacking into Clinton`s server.
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