{"id":13630,"date":"2026-06-16T02:03:27","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/maine-forced-to-take-down-data-breach-portal-after-fake-notices-filed-with-authorities\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T02:03:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T02:03:27","slug":"maine-forced-to-take-down-data-breach-portal-after-fake-notices-filed-with-authorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/16\/maine-forced-to-take-down-data-breach-portal-after-fake-notices-filed-with-authorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Maine forced to take down data breach portal after fake notices filed with authorities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Maine forced to take down data breach portal after fake notices filed with authorities<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>The US state of Maine has taken its public data breach notification portal offline after someone submitted fraudulent breach disclosures impersonating two well-known technology companies.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Graham Cluley<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitdefender.com\/en-us\/blog\/hotforsecurity\/maine-take-down-data-breach-portal\">Go to grahamcluley<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maine forced to take down data breach portal after fake notices filed with authorities The US state of Maine has taken its public data breach notification portal offline after someone submitted fraudulent breach disclosures impersonating two well-known technology companies. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Graham Cluley Go to grahamcluley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,154,499,54,155,164,2523,2524],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-13630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-data-breach","category-data-loss","category-discord","category-grahamcluley","category-guest-blog","category-law-order","category-maine","category-vrchat","tag-grahamcluley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}