{"id":8452,"date":"2014-12-03T14:14:05","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T19:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-utk-volumes.pantheonsite.io\/?p=8452"},"modified":"2023-11-20T11:06:01","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T16:06:01","slug":"caution-library-related-phishing-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2014\/12\/caution-library-related-phishing-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Caution: Library-Related Phishing Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some faculty, students, and staff received the following email during the last few days:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear User,<\/p>\n<p>Your library account has expired, therefore you must reactivate it immediately or it will be closed automatically. If you intend to use this service in the future, you must take action at once!<br \/>\nTo reactivate your account, simply visit the following page and login with your library account.<\/p>\n<p>Login Page:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/reactivation?service<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>University of Tennessee<br \/>\nUniversity Libraries<br \/>\nEmail: library@utk.edu<br \/>\nTel: (865) 974-4351<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This message is a phishing attack and is not from the UT Libraries. Library accounts are linked with users&#8217; NetIDs and passwords. They are reset through <a title=\"NetID Password\" href=\"https:\/\/oit.utk.edu\/accounts\/passwords\/netid\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>OIT&#8217;s password services<\/strong><\/a>. If you receive the above message, UT Libraries strongly encourages it be reported to OIT at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;color: #0000ff\"><strong>abuse@utk.edu<\/strong><\/span>. Users that accidentally provided information to the fishing attack are encouraged to change their passwords and report any problems to OIT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some faculty, students, and staff received the following email during the last few days: Dear User, Your library account has expired, therefore you must reactivate it immediately or it will be closed automatically. If you intend to use this service in the future, you must take action at once! To reactivate your account, simply visit &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2014\/12\/caution-library-related-phishing-attack\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Caution: Library-Related Phishing Attack - News - News from the University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2014\/12\/caution-library-related-phishing-attack\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Caution: Library-Related Phishing Attack - News - News from the University of Tennessee Knoxville Libraries\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Some faculty, students, and staff received the following email during the last few days: Dear User, Your library account has expired, therefore you must reactivate it immediately or it will be closed automatically. 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