A group of hackers were able to hack into the's e-mail system on Saturday, sending tens of thousands of warning messages about a possible cyber attack, Reuters and cybersecurity experts said, according to Reuters.
The AFBI issued a statement announcing:
The fake emails were apparently sent from an official AFBI email to thousands of addresses. However, the hardware damaged by this hacker attack has quickly gone offline.
The Spamhaus Project also claims that hackers have sent thousands of warning emails about a possible cyber attack.