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Hackers Infiltrate FBI Email System, Warn of Potential Cyberattack

‘THREAT ACTOR IN SYSTEMS’

The breach affected an email system the FBI uses to send public communications rather than an internal one for classified information.

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Hackers compromised the FBI’s external email system Saturday and used it in a rather counterintuitive way: warning of a potential cyberattack with thousands of spam messages.

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