A hosted e-mail system that the FBI uses to communicate
with the public has been taken out of action after it was
"compromised".
The FBI said the fbi.gov e-mail system would be out of use until
it had completed an investigation into the issue.
"We are aware of a compromise to a commercial e-mail system
which hosts fbi.gov accounts, provided by a commercial supplier,"
it said.
"These accounts are used for non-sensitive, non-secure
communications and do not impact secure internal and external FBI
e-mail accounts. The FBI has suspended use of these fbi.gov
accounts pending completion of a review of the matter."
Last December the FBI joined forces with AOL, Microsoft, and
other IT suppliers and government agencies to form an e-mail
security group, which would tackle growing e-mail threats such as
phishing.
