The Spamhaus Project, a European nonprofit that called attention to the incident, said that about 100,000 “scary” emails were sent to addresses scraped from a database.
The FBI said that no data was compromised in the exploit.
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The FBI acknowledged that a hacker took advantage of a “software misconfiguration” in an agency messaging system to pump out emails warning of phony cyberattacks. So reports ThreatPost.
The Spamhaus Project, a European nonprofit that called attention to the incident, said that about 100,000 “scary” emails were sent to addresses scraped from a database.
The FBI said that no data was compromised in the exploit.