Mike Lindell Group Referred To FBI Over Shady Emails

ABC News reports:

A series of emails sent by a group led and funded by MyPillow CEO and election denier Mike Lindell have been referred to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, according to federal officials, after election officers across the country began finding what they said were misleading email messages.

Those emails included a survey asking for, among other things, sensitive personal information from those tasked with overseeing the voting process and details about their offices’ cybersecurity systems. The messages explained the group was looking to help boost the nation’s election integrity.

Within two hours of finding out about the survey, the Center for Internet Security put out an alert warning that its Cyber Threat Intelligence team had “received multiple reports” of the “Misleading Email to Election Officials” that could falsely “lead a recipient to believe” the note was from their EI-ISAC.

Law & Crime reports:

One question in the ECB survey was whether recipients have a “membership agreement” with the Center for Internet Security (CIS), a 24-year-old nonprofit organization based in upstate New York. The CIS, essentially an internet standards organization, describes its mission as “harnessing the power of the global IT community to safeguard public and private organizations against cyber threats.”

Specifically, the ECB emails requested information about a public-private initiative between the CIS and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security: the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center. The ECB emails also asked for employees’ home addresses, what kinds of network and device-specific security protections were being used — and whether CIS had “provided” them such protections.

There’s much more at both links above.

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