More than a dozen New Zealand schools were targeted with bomb threats on Thursday, leading to closure and evacuation of most facilities and could constitute a foreign-orchestrated cyberattack, officials suspect.
The president of the Federation of New Zealand School Principals, Cherie Taylor-Patel, explained to New Zealand radio, RNZ, that the Ministry of Education believed that it was “a ‘cyberbot‘ from abroad”.
The wave of threats was unleashed in 24 hours after several false calls were made on Wednesday in four new zealand schools in Waikato, Thames and Gibsoner in the north of the country.
The New Zealand police, who have already said that “do not believe there is a security risk“He added that threats to other schools are being investigated.
According to Tasman Regional Commander Simon Feltham, two young men were also questioned about the threat against Marlborough Girls High School.
However, no explosive devices were found in the targeted schools.
This is not the first time that education in New Zealand has been the target of a bomb threat, as a similar case occurred in 2016 in schools in New Zealand and Australia.
In 2018, An Israeli-American was sentenced to 10 years in prison by an Israeli court for issuing nearly 2,000 false alarms in North America, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, and Denmark.
Source: Observadora
