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FBI E-Mail Server Breached

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the breaking-and-reading dept.

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."

4 of 223 comments (clear)

  1. Troll? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Apparently some moderators can't read.

  2. Re:Look at this spam I just got today by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It's a fucking joke, you dumbfuck n00b with the mod points.

  3. Re:Request by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    It was running linux. For obvious reason he didn't mention this in his summary.

  4. Re:Non Event by Master+Bait · · Score: 0, Troll

    There's no guarantee that the operation of the FBI's other network isn't also farmed out to a similar incompetent cheap-labor dweeb with appropriate Republican political connections.

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