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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">I actually think this is a serious problem that we really need to look further into and if I'm being honest, I'm a little concerned by people's lack of concern. I would've brought it up to discuss at the last BOD meeting, but I couldn't attend due to it conflicting with another libertarian meeting. I agree with Ken that information security violations are going to happen; however, there's a difference between getting a suspicious email telling you to click a link to 'find hot singles in your area' and someone reaching out to several people in leadership and successfully impersonating the leader of our state party. This is the phishing email I (and others) received:</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace">In hindsight, it's definitely strange, but there are no red flags within the message itself like misspelled words, weird links or attachments, requests for personal info, or anything seemingly nefarious or suspicious. At my job, I regularly work with datasets containing social security numbers and my company occasionally sends out fake phishing emails as tests to ensure tech employees like myself report anything suspicious. Yet I didn't realize this was actually a phishing attempt until Bob mentioned it to me offhand a little over a week ago. We need to figure out what happened here and probably look into taking some additional measures to ensure sensitive information is not compromised.<br /><br />Best,<br />Alexa</div>
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<div class="pre" style="margin: 0; padding: 0; font-family: monospace"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Alexa Maffei</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> State Central Committee Rep, 10th District</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> Libertarian Party of Illinois</span><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> <a href="mailto:scc10@lpillinois.org">scc10@lpillinois.org</a></span><br /><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: tahoma, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"> (815) 274-1976</span></div>
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<br /><br />On 2023-08-20 23:36, Ken Mattes via Lpil-bod wrote:
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">In my volunteer work with the McHenry County EMA I am privy to sensitive information, as it is with my work with LPIL.<br /><br />Cyberterror is our region's top threat by far. Drought is way behind in second place. Both of these threats have a 100% chance of happening; in other words, these things WILL happen; it's not a question of if; it is a question of when and where.<br /><br />The Board of Directors of the Libertarian Party of Illinois is comprised of some of the best individuals I have ever meet. Not a single one of us would ever ask any of you to do anything surrepticiously. Our team does not operate that way.<br /><br />Please contine to report any scurrilous messages or emails to our team, and attach screenshots if you can.<br /><br />On 2023-08-20 21:15, Justin Tucker via Lpil-bod wrote:
<blockquote type="cite" style="padding: 0 0.4em; border-left: #1010ff 2px solid; margin: 0">Team - It has come to my attention that several people have received emails seemingly from Bill Redpath and possibly other board members with no subject line vaguely asking them to chat a little via email. This is actually a phishing attempt. Do not open the email. If you have done so already, do not respond, and absolutely do not provide any personal information, click on any links, or download any attachments in it. If you suspect an email you've received could be suspicious, hover over the sender's name. A pop-up with their email address will appear. If it isn't <a href="mailto:chair@lpillinois.org">chair@lpillinois.org</a> or <a href="mailto:wredpath2@yahoo.com">wredpath2@yahoo.com</a>, it is not Bill Redpath. Someone received one from a Gmail account called officemaile712.<br /><br />If you have received or receive an email like I described or any email that you find suspicious, please let me know as soon as possible.<br /><br />Best,<br />Justin Tucker<br />Executive Director, Libertarian Party of Illinois</blockquote>
<br /><span class="sig">-- <br />Ken Mattes<br />Secretary, Libertarian Party of Illinois<br /><a href="mailto:secretary@lpillinois.org">secretary@lpillinois.org</a><br />815 342 5177</span></blockquote>
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