Eastern’s Information and Technology Services said a phishing attempt affected various individuals on campus over the weekend. 

The spam emails were sent from user names that students recognized, though those individuals had no knowledge of the emails being sent. 

In the spam email the message stated that it was unable to display the full message and had a large green box which indicated you were to click the box to show the full message. 

After clicking on the box, the email asked for personal information. 

In an email sent to the entire campus, ITS instructed to students to delete the message from their inbox and browse to https://password.eiu.edu and reset their password to make sure their panthermail account was secure. 

Students will need their netID and current password to log into the site to change the password. 

In the future, ITS said if students come across an email that looks suspicious they need to check to see if it an official message sent out by Eastern by going to https://www.eiu.edu/panthertech/email_verification.php.

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