Clinton has spent most of her time in public office using her personal email for government use (there's been some leaks already). http://observer.com/2016/01/why-hillarys-emailgate-matters/
The first and most obvious problem is the security. Clinton initially claimed (more on this later) that no classified emails made it on to this server - over time, more and more classified emails have been shown to have been sent and received from this personal server. The server was run, and secured, by an amateur and most IT pros are of the impression that remote access would have been of negligible difficulty. It even had the RDP port directly open to the internet - it really was amateur hour.
The next issue is of accountability/clarity. As with most governments, there are regulations as to how email communications are recorded, stored and archived. These policies did not apply and were not applied to her own server. All of her communications were wiped at Clinton's request, leaving us with little knowledge as to what was said by who and to whom and when - an obvious issue in a democracy. We only know what we do because some people she was communicating with have been hacked. This is especially problematic when you consider that this was her means of communication for issues in which her private communications were unlikely to paint her in a good light, such as Benghazi. Clinton pretty much exclusively used her private email for discussions about Benghazi and it was whilst her actions were being considered in an enquiry that she had the server wiped.
This all leads us around to Clinton's penchant for lying. Not that political "I won't raise taxes" kind of lying, but the Watergate kind - somewhat more serious than "My daughter was jogging next to the WTC on September 11th" or "I landed in Bosnia under sniper fire". In this case, she initially denied using her personal server for government reasons at all. When that was proven untrue, she claimed that she only used it on rare occasions when she couldn't access the gov servers. When this was proven untrue she claimed that she used it, but not for anything classified. When this was proven untrue she agreed to hand over anything relevant to the authorities. It's since been discovered that she failed to hand over all the relevant information.
My suspicion (although it's just that) is that there's more ammo where this is concerned, but it's being kept back for use during a presidential election. This went too quiet too quickly for all of the juice to have trickled out.
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