Federal contractors and grant recipients got a scare Wednesday morning after waking up to a strange email claiming to have changed critical information about their government registration. The fright was further compounded by an unscheduled website outage preventing users from checking to ensure their information was correct.

According to the General Services Administration, the email was caused by a system bug and the outage was unrelated…

“This does NOT appear to be a scam, phishing, hack, malicious behavior or security breach,” the agency said in a tweet. “Entity Administrators should ignore these emails generated by SAM.gov in error. Investigations continue but we believe this was related to a software issue.” … Read the full article here.