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Almost 30 email accounts, a few which belonged to former secretary of state Hillary Clinton's top aides, were part of some "top secret" information found on her private unsecured email server.

A U.S. government source told Fox News that accounts of her top aides, Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills, Jake Sullivan and Philippe Reines, managed many of the 22 top secret messages. Very "sensitive" information was discovered in the account of State Department Under Secretary for Management, Patrick Kennedy.

Perhaps 30 accounts may have sent the information, said the source.

"The State Department has retroactively classified at lower levels more than 1,500 emails found on Clinton's server. For the first time last month, it confirmed that 22 were classified as top secret. The top-secret messages were not released publicly, even in redacted form, because the information posed such a great risk to national security. At least one of the emails contained "oblique" references to CIA assets," reports HNGN.

Many of these messages had been discovered in the accounts of her aides, said the official.

The State Department added that its Diplomatic Security and Intelligence and Research bureaus will soon be probing whether any of the information was classified at the time it was sent, according to the Associated Press.

This week, the FBI confirmed to the State Department that it will be soon examining whether she was mismanaging important, classified information though she has clarified that she never sent data marked as classified at the time.

Clinton charges that the Republicans are twisting her arm over her email arrangement.