{"id":208,"date":"2014-08-29T12:04:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-29T12:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/isnews\/?p=208"},"modified":"2014-08-29T12:13:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-29T12:13:06","slug":"fraudulent-email-with-the-subject-line-account-update-required-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/fraudulent-email-with-the-subject-line-account-update-required-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Fraudulent email with the subject line &#8220;Account update required&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #333333\"><strong>Important security update \u00a0&#8211; please read<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A number of staff and students have received an email during the bank holiday weekend with a subject &#8216;Account update required&#8217; and a ShuSpace logo. Following the link it contains takes you to a fake SHU logon page.\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit;color: inherit\">This email is a forgery aimed at collecting usernames and passwords from those who fill in the form.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: inherit;color: inherit\">If you have received it please do not fill in your username and password in the logon form.<\/span>\u00a0<span style=\"font-style: inherit;color: inherit\">However, if you have already entered these details please change your password as soon as possible as your account is at risk of misuse.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can change your password by following the &#8216;Forgotten your Password?&#8217; link from the University logon page reached via ShuSpace.<\/p>\n<p>Please remember you should not follow links in any email unless you are absolutely certain they are genuine. If you have any questions or concerns about this or other suspicious emails please contact IT Help on 0114 225 3333 or ithelp@shu.ac.uk<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Important security update \u00a0&#8211; please read A number of staff and students have received an email during the bank holiday weekend with a subject &#8216;Account update required&#8217; and a ShuSpace logo. Following the link it contains takes you to a fake SHU logon page.\u00a0This email is a forgery aimed at collecting usernames and passwords from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/fraudulent-email-with-the-subject-line-account-update-required-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fraudulent email with the subject line &#8220;Account update required&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-support","tag-monday-1-september-2014"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/files\/2014\/08\/Scam1-1024x768.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RiUv-3m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}