Email has been compromised

I have received legitimate emails from the federal at @esd.wa.go regarding a data breach AND The State of Illinois at Illinois.gov stating my identity been compromised. Yet my mobile number and iCloud email registered in Ghana.

I have NEVER used this email regarding any matters in USA. And of course, the email hasn’t been used by another person previously nor does anyone have access to may email portal.

This is is very strange. And anxiously trying to figure out how it could happen.

Thanks,

Hi Less, I appreciate your input as well. The URLs in both of the emails are authentic which are Illinois.gov and esd.wa.gov

Do you think it’s feasible for those urls to be cloned? If so, that’s a scary thought how one could hijack a URL so easily. Seems feasible for someone doing it internally with access to the backend system to manipulate.

The message in the body of the email was obviously fake. My profession is trained to spot spoof emails. But this was a good trick because they used authentic urls.

Yet, for security measures I did report both emails to apple while this mystery remains.

Thanks,

Linda

That was my initial thought...phishing emails. But when I view the url in the email, I verified it is a legitimate federal and state website.

Is that feasible?