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FBI Says Hackers Got No Data After Compromising Email Server

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seal at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., on June 17, 2013. (Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images)

FBI said Sunday that hackers did not access any data or personal information on its network, a day after they compromised an agency server to send out thousands of fake emails.

agency said it has fixed the software vulnerability that allowed the attack.

fake emails originated from an FBI-operated server, which was dedicated to pushing notifications to the Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal (LEEP), which the FBI uses to communicate with state and local agencies. compromised server was not part of the FBI’s corporate email service, the FBI added.

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fake emails warned of a cyberattack and appeared to come from a legitimate FBI email address ending in @ic.fbi.gov, the FBI said.

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