Hungarian boy hacks email linked to the bomb threats, uncovers a Russian tie – UPDATED - DailyNewsHungary

Hundreds of schools were evacuated on Thursday morning due to a bomb threat. In the emails with the same content, educational institutions were threatened in the name of Allah. The messages were sent via foreign email providers. Minister Gergely Gulyás told Kormányinfón that the secret services contacted their Slovak counterparts, as the authorities there faced similar threats last year. These threats are common in Western Europe, and there is e…

The emails were sent through the Russian email service Yandex, but it is not clear that Russians were behind it. Several Hungarians also sent emails to the disposable email addresses after the incident.

More than 300 Hungarian schools had to be evacuated on Thursday morning due to an email containing a bomb threat, which has since been revealed to be linked to a Ukrainian IP address and a Russian email. The so far ... ...

Hungarian boy hacks email linked to the bomb threats, uncovers a Russian tie – UPDATED - DailyNewsHungary

A bomb threat targeting over a hundred Hungarian schools has sparked speculation of a Russian link after a 15-year-old programmer hacked the email behind the threats.

The attacker also used a Ukrainian service, but it is not known who is behind the intimidating message.

Russian-language emails were sent to institutions, but there was no real danger behind the threat.