The Ohio State University (Ohio, USA) disclosed that a phishing assault had lately hit the mailboxes of OSU students. Thelantern.com published this on March 7, 2011.
Displaying a header, "Urgent Security Update," the phishing e-mail attempted at enticing students to click on a web-link named "re-login and resolve the issue" where they were asked to feed in personal usernames and passwords.
The e-mail asserted that its sender was
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an id that actually belonged to the OIT (Office of Information Technology) of OSU.
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