FBI(FBI) According to reports, the e-mail system was hacked on Saturday morning, and several reports stated that messages sent by the agency’s e-mail infrastructure purported to be warnings from the FBI. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) About cyber attacks.

The Spamhaus Project is an international non-profit organization based in Andorra and Switzerland, responsible for tracking spam, according to reports Twitter Its analysis showed that these unusual emails were sent from accounts “crawled” in the ARIN database.

“We already know that the’horrible’ emails sent in the past few hours claim to be from the FBI/DHS [Department of Homeland Security],” the Spamhaus project wrote on Twitter.

“Although these emails are indeed sent from the infrastructure owned by the FBI/DHS (LEEP portal), our research shows that these emails are *forged.”

Some social media users reported receiving a strangely worded email that mentioned a “complex chain attack” and mentioned the “blackmail gang TheDarkOverlord”.

Weekly newspaper The FBI has been asked for comment.

This is a breaking news story and will be updated.

On July 5, 2016, the FBI’s seal can be seen outside the headquarters building in Washington, DC. According to reports, the FBI’s email system was hacked on Saturday.
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