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Tens of thousands of people received fake email alerts on Friday and Saturday purporting to come from the Federal Bureau of Investigation after hackers compromised an FBI-run online portal.<\/p>\n

Hackers used a \u201csoftware misconfiguration\u201d to temporarily gain access to the Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal (LEEP) and send out an email blast from what appeared to be a legitimate FBI email address ending in @ic.fbi.gov, the FBI said in\u00a0a press release<\/a>. LEEP acts as a gateway for state and local law enforcement authorities to share intel and access resources as part of their investigations.<\/p>\n

Once it identified the threat, the FBI took the impacted hardware offline, and the vulnerability was \u201cquickly remediated,\u201d according to the press release. Based on its investigation so far, it doesn\u2019t appear that the hackers were able to access FBI files.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile the illegitimate email originated from an FBI operated server, that server was dedicated to pushing notifications for LEEP and was not part of the FBI\u2019s corporate email service,\u201d the FBI said in an updated statement on Sunday. \u201cNo actor was able to access or compromise any data or PII [personally identifiable information] on the FBI\u2019s network. Once we learned of the incident, we quickly remediated the software vulnerability, warned partners to disregard the fake emails, and confirmed the integrity of our networks.\u201d<\/p>\n

The phony messages warned recipients that they were at risk of a \u201csophisticated chain attack,\u201d according to screenshots shared on Twitter by\u00a0The Spamhaus Project<\/a>, a nonprofit that tracks\u00a0spam and other cyber threats.\u00a0The emails name\u00a0<\/strong>real-life\u00a0<\/strong>cybersecurity expert Vinny Troia as the perpetrator behind the fake attacks and falsely claim that he is associated with the hacking group The Dark Overlord, the same bad actors that infamously\u00a0leaked the fifth season<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0Orange Is the New Black.<\/em>\u00a0Troia\u2019s company Night Lion Security, an IT security consulting firm known for investigating the dark web and other cybercrime marketplaces, published\u00a0an investigative report<\/a>\u00a0about The Dark Overlord in January.<\/p>\n

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