Daytona State College Email System Hacked, Used to Send Bomb Threats

Submitted by Adam Dodge on Fri, 2009-12-11 17:52

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Daytona Beach Police are investigating the breach of Daytona State College's email system after the system was used to send out three bomb threats. The bomb threat emails were sent from the hacked system to one of the college's adjunct professors. The emails, which originated from an account belonging to an employee on the Daytona Beach campus, contained references to bombs and a threat to "blow this school up, and kill everyone till they are gone". According to John Banker, the college's security supervisor, the employee was not responsible and someone had hacked into her account. Daytona State College does not feel this is a viable but is taking steps to locate the person responsible.