{"id":930699,"date":"2025-05-14T11:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T06:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=930699"},"modified":"2025-05-14T11:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T06:15:11","slug":"hackers-may-have-misused-us-governments-email-alert-system-to-send-scam-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/14\/hackers-may-have-misused-us-governments-email-alert-system-to-send-scam-messages\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers may have misused US government&#8217;s email alert system to send scam messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers have reportedly misused a US federal and state government department\u2019s email notification system to send scam messages. This system, which is used to alert residents to important information, has been exploited by cybercriminals, a report claims. According to a report by TechCrunch, the US state of Indiana has said that it is &#8220;aware of fraudulent messages purportedly sent by state agencies&#8221; concerning unpaid tolls. The report also claims to have reviewed an example of a scam email sent from an Indiana government department.<\/p>\n<p>This email claimed the recipient had an outstanding toll balance and contained a disguised link redirecting to a malicious site. The Indiana Office of Technology issued a statement saying they are &#8220;working with the company that was used to deliver those messages to stop any further communication.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hackers have reportedly misused a US federal and state government department\u2019s email notification system to send scam messages. This system, which is used to alert residents to important information, has been exploited by cybercriminals, a report claims. According to a report by TechCrunch, the US state of Indiana has said that it is &#8220;aware of fraudulent messages purportedly sent by state agencies&#8221; concerning unpaid tolls. The report also claims to have reviewed an example of a scam email sent from an Indiana government department. This email claimed the recipient had an outstanding toll balance and contained a disguised link redirecting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-930699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}