Maine has taken its public data breach reporting portal offline after fraudulent breach disclosures were published on the state's website, prompting a review of procedures to prevent abuse in the future.
Yesterday, BleepingComputer reported that fake data breach disclosures had been submitted to Maine's official breach notification portal impersonating Discord and the multiplayer social virtual reality platform VRChat.
At the time, VRChat told BleepingComputer the filing was fraudulent and had been submitted using the name of a fictitious employee.
In a statement published Friday, the Maine Attorney General's Office acknowledged that data breach "hoaxes" were submitted through the state's reporting system.
"The Office of the Maine Attorney General has been made aware of an apparent abuse of our data breach reporting system," the statement reads.
