Bomb threats force evacuations at more than 300 Italian schools
Bomb threats spread to schools across Italy, prompting emergency evacuations at more than 300 schools. Authorities suspected a possible cyber-attack by a large hacker network. Reports suggested that the IP addresses used to send the threats originated in Taiwan, alongside suspicions that alumni email accounts at Da-Yeh University had been compromised, and the Italian prime minister's office instructed schools not to evacuate.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Being confirmed
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- Emergency evacuations at more than 300 schools in Italy
- Cause / method
- Dissemination of bomb threat messages, with suspicions of an attack by a hacker network and the compromise of alumni email accounts
- Location
- Italy
Timeline
- It emerged that more than 300 schools across Italy had carried out emergency evacuations following bomb threats.
- Reports suggested that the IP addresses used to send the threats originated in Taiwan, alongside suspicions that alumni email accounts at Da-Yeh University had been compromised.
- The Italian prime minister's office instructed schools not to evacuate.
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