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‘THREAT ACTOR IN SYSTEMS’

Hackers Infiltrate FBI Email System, Warn of Potential Cyberattack

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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By Blake Montgomery

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. The attack reportedly began at midnight, and the messages reading “Urgent: threat actor in systems” went out around 2 a.m. Eastern Time. The FBI said in a statement to Bloomberg that it was “aware of the incident this morning involving fake emails from an @ic.fbi.gov email account.” The breached email system is one FBI personnel can use to communicate with the public rather than with each other; it is not a system for classified information.

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