Email from Intel Identity Consolidation - real or PHISHING ?

The issue of the "experience" logging into the forum, is secondary.

The MAIN issue, which you have not addressed is the validity of the email.

I still have NO CONFIRMATION from Intel that this is a genuine Intel email.

I will also point out, with some annoyance, that Intel Twitter support, when I reported this issue, GHOSTED me.

If the email is a PHISHING email then... there has been a leak of customer information from Intel.

If the email is a genuine email from Intel (which I now lean towards), then using URLs which have every appearance of PHISHING type URLs, is an act of gross stupidity, and the person responsible needs to get the sack. Given that this email purports to be about SECURITY, it is IRONIC that there is no way a receiver of this email can verify that it really is a genuine email sent from Intel.

I hope that anyone else receiving this email realises that it is VERY DANGEROUS to click on any links/URLs found in emails, that are suspicious.

There is no reason that the links in the email should not use the "intel.com" domain, which would give confidence that the link is genuine, however it is well known that PHISHING style emails have one or two DANGEROUS links, and other links such as for "Contact Us" or "Privacy" have genuine URLs which point back to the company which is being imitated.

Due to stupidity by IT, it is getting difficult to identify genuine emails/messages. I recently received a text to my phone, purporting to be from my medical practice, when clicked on, asks for my date of birth, "to validate that it is me". Again it was likely this was a genuine text, but there is no way I am entering those type of details without 100% certainty of the origin of the text message.