Security News > 2023 > February > FBI is investigating a cybersecurity incident on its network
"The FBI is aware of the incident and is working to gain additional information," the U.S. domestic intelligence and security service told CNN on Friday.
"This is an isolated incident that has been contained. As this is an ongoing investigation the FBI does not have further comment to provide at this time."
An FBI spokesperson was not immediately available for comment when BleepingComputer reached out earlier today to ask for more details.
In November 2021, the FBI's email servers were also hacked to distribute spam emails impersonating FBI warnings "Sophisticated chain attack."
"The FBI is aware of a software misconfiguration that temporarily allowed an actor to leverage the Law Enforcement Enterprise Portal to send fake emails. LEEP is FBI IT infrastructure used to communicate with our state and local law enforcement partners," the FBI said at the time.
"While the illegitimate email originated from an FBI operated server, that server was dedicated to pushing notifications for LEEP and was not part of the FBI's corporate email service. No actor was able to access or compromise any data or PII on FBI's network."