It's not unusual at all, it is rather less usual to reallocate them regularly and unlikely it was coincidentally allocated to one of the ~1700 households with s

It's not unusual at all, it is rather less usual to reallocate them regularly and unlikely it was coincidentally allocated to one of the ~1700 households with someone who used the system in question. Nonetheless, I don't see any reason to believe she sent a message. It is quite possible that her previous employer has had access to her computers via organization provided software and/or is also incompetent when it comes to logging. Additionally, they clearly already knew her IP addresses, and she an obvious choice to impersonate. I think a federal agency should take the entire department and state house apart and look for crimes by current state employees and law enforcement. Either that or they can dump these federal "cyber" laws if they can't evenly detect, investigate and prosecute their misuse by individuals and states. On a slightly different tangent, I think this serves as an example for why one should be able to refuse all requirements to use a computer as part of one's work. These kinds of legal risks during and after employment are not reasonable.