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Fraudsters exploit leaked dot-mil addresses
Scammers are using Pentagon email accounts that were exposed when hackers cracked a defense contractor's computer system to make fake online orders.
A July leak of 90,000 military email addresses and passwords has helped swindlers commit online fraud, FBI officials said.
The hacktivist group Anonymous on July 11 announced it had obtained, and later posted, the confidential data by cracking a computer system at defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton.
Now, imposters are using the traditionally trustworthy dot-mil addresses to place sham orders with e-commerce vendors, warned the Internet Crime Complaint Center, an FBI-led public private partnership. Businesses have witnessed an increase in fake dot-mil orders during the past 30 days, according to the center.