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When I was at CSAIL, I got one of those targeted phishing emails like "YOURE MIT INBOX IS FULL!!11!!" full of typos and painfully fake. I laughed it off, thinking MIT CS students would be too smart for this, but I was surprised it seemed to legitimately come from a @mit.edu address. It turned out someone was hacked, their address was used to send this, and apparently various people had fallen for it.


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