Hijacked Taiwan university email account used for bomb threats against European schools
A hijacked email account at Taiwan’s Da-Yeh University was used to send false bomb threats to schools in Europe. An alumnus’s account was suspected of having been hacked, and threatening emails were sent from the university’s domain to more than 6,000 Italian state schools. The university suspended the account, while the use of a legitimate institutional account made spam detection and the investigation more difficult.
Key facts
- Affected organisation
- Da-Yeh University
- Incident type
- Hacking & intrusion
- Occurred / detected
- Not confirmed
- Scale of damage
- A hijacked account was used to send bomb threat emails to more than 6,000 Italian state schools
- Cause / method
- Hijacking of a university email account
- Location
- Taiwan
Timeline
- It emerged that a hijacked Da-Yeh University email account had been used to send false bomb threats to European schools and that the university had suspended the account.
- It emerged that an alumnus’s email account was suspected of having been hacked and that threatening emails had been sent to more than 6,000 Italian state schools.
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