Dallas Woodhouse advised any people who were caught by the phishing scam to immediately change his or her password — “and never use that password again, for anything, ever.” | Getty North Carolina GOP leader suffers email breach

A top North Carolina Republican Party official's email account was breached Monday morning.

“My email account was compromised, sending out ‘phishing’ emails to all of my contacts, with a link to a counterfeit site pretending to be Dropbox,” said Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the North Carolina GOP. “I did not send those emails.”


An email from Woodhouse’s North Carolina GOP address was sent to undisclosed recipients around 7:30 a.m. Monday. The messages suggest that Woodhouse shared a document titled “GOP-financial_Document.pdf” via Dropbox.

Clicking the file name takes users to a Web page that purports to be Dropbox. The URL, however, begins with “talampayaexc.tur.ar/northwesternmutual/biz/pro/enterprise.php?....” The page prompts users to “sign in to view document shared with you” and select your email client, which includes Google, Yahoo, AOL and Outlook.

“The linked website in the email will try to trick you into putting your email address and password to ‘sign in,’” Woodhouse warned. “DO NOT enter your email or password on that counterfeit site (or on any non-verified, non-SSL secured site).”

Woodhouse advised any people who were caught by the phishing scam to immediately change his or her password — “and never use that password again, for anything, ever.” He said his account is now secured and apologized for the inconvenience.

The breach comes a day after the state Republican Party’s office was firebombed in Hillsborough. An explosive device was tossed through a window of the Orange County office, and the words “Nazi Republicans, leave town or else” were painted on a nearby building.

Woodhouse condemned the attack, writing in a statement Sunday, “Whether you are Republican, Democrat, or Independent, all Americans should be outraged by this hate-filled and violent attack against our democracy.”

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