Wave of bomb threats emailed across U.S
A rash of bomb threats were circulated via email on
Thursday targeting dozens of businesses and public buildings across the United
States, but the credibility of those threats could not immediately be
ascertained, euronews reported quoting law enforcement officials as saying.
Police departments in several U.S. cities said on
Twitter that local businesses had received a bomb threat in an email demanding
payment in bitcoin currency.
Among the cities where bomb threats were reported by
authorities on official Twitter accounts were New York, Detroit, San Francisco,
Oklahoma City, Denver and Raleigh, North Carolina.
The New York City Police Department was
investigating what a spokesman described as an “email chain” sent to businesses
around the city threatening to set off an explosive device if payment was not
made to an electronic currency account.
The spokesman said he did not know whether similar
threats and demands had been received elsewhere and was unaware whether any
real bombs had been discovered.
