Post Syndicated from jzb original https://lwn.net/Articles/1081012/

We were made aware today of an email sent to a reader that was
spoofed to appear to be from LWN. The message claimed, among other
things, that we were providing personal information about the reader
to another site user. As is explained in our privacy policy we do not,
and would not, provide such information.

If any other readers have received an odd message from LWN, it is
an attempt at a hoax; if in doubt, please check the DKIM header of the
email. Any email that does come from LWN will have a proper DKIM
signature in its headers.

If you receive such a message, please feel free to send it to us,
with its headers intact. But to reiterate, we are not providing any
user information upon request, nor banning any accounts. We hope this
will not be a recurring problem.