FBI E-Mail Server Breached

voma writes "The FBI said Friday it has shut down an e-mail system that it uses to communicate with the public because of a possible security breach. The bureau is investigating whether someone hacked into the www.fbi.gov e-mail system, which is run by a private company, officials said. 'We use these accounts to communicate with you folks, view internet sites, and conduct other non-sensitive bureau business such as sending out press releases,' Special Agent Steve Lazarus, the FBI's media coordinator in Atlanta, said in an e-mail describing the problem."

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They use an email server to surf the web???

[dos4who]

"'We use these accounts to ...view internet sites...".

I'm sorry, but when I hear a media spokesperson hiccup like that, my bullshit detector sends up an immediate flag. What was this email server really used for???