The FBI says it has fixed a software misconfiguration that was abused to send hoax emails, from a legitimate FBI domain address, falsely warning of a cyberattack.
As many as 100,000 Hoaxhoax emails were sent in two waves early Saturday morning that purported to come from the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security, according to the spam watchdog group Spamhaus Project.
Although the abused email server is operated by the FBI, the bureau issued an updated statement Sunday noting that the server is not part of the bureau’s corporate email service, and that no classified systems or personally identifiable information was compromised.
