Phishing incident gets Oregon.gov blacklisted by Microsoft email services

StateScoop: Yet another government employee has fallen for a phishing email, and this time it's Oregon state government's email service that is suffering the consequences.

A statement at the top of Gov. Kate Brown's website Wednesday notifies visitors that "issues with the @oregon.gov domain are preventing communication from state employees with an @oregon.gov email address." Specifically, the state is unable to send emails to people with outlook.com, hotmail.com, msn.com, or live.com email addresses because those Microsoft-owned services have blacklisted Oregon.gov since a state employee clicked on a link in a phishing email over the weekend.

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