The key facts
- Several educational institutions of Bashkiria received letters with threats
- Authorities called the incident a spam attack and urged people not to panic
- Classes resumed as normal in the inspected buildings
Spam attack on educational institutions of Bashkiria
Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Bashkiria Ural Kilsenbaev reported in a channel on Max that schools and colleges of the republic were subjected to a spam attack with threats. According to him, several educational institutions in Ufa, Uchaly and other districts received letters with threats.
Statement by the authorities
“I want to reassure students and parents right away: there is no cause for alarm. We are seeing another coordinated spam attack, the goal of which is one — to create nervousness, disrupt classes and sow panic,” Kilsenbaev noted. He added that where specialists have completed inspections of the buildings, classes have resumed as normal.
Similar case in the Nizhny Novgorod region
On October 14, in the town of Semenov in the Nizhny Novgorod region, a teenager was forced to send a letter about an alleged bomb, threatened with the deletion of his gaming accounts. A letter threatening mining arrived at the email of one of the local schools, the information about the bomb turned out to be false. It turned out that the letter was sent from the email address of a local teenager born in 2009. Earlier, a lawyer warned about the consequences of false mining reports for teenagers.
