The University of Moncton is again the target of a malicious e-mail

MONCTON, NB – The University of Moncton, New Brunswick, has again been the target of a malicious e-mail, the school said on Sunday.

In a communiqué, she said that a new e-mail from the same source behind the previous malicious messages had been sent on Saturday night, but it was quickly erased by the technology branch.

The University says it will continue to work with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, as well as external experts, to put an end to this “degrading and unwanted emails” campaign as quickly as possible.

She refuses to make any further comments, so she says, not to hurt the ongoing investigation.

Last week, several hundred members of the university community at the Université de Moncton had received malicious emails. These messages contained sexual and hate-motivated material about a student.

These shipments were not due to an act of piracy, but is the result of a case of identity theft, said the rector of the establishment, Raymond Théberge, last Monday. One of the messages was sent via an e-mail address from the Moncton University Campus Student Federation (WESUM) through a server outside the country, Said the vice-chancellor of the Université de Moncton.

In total, 9,000 messages from three different mailings had to be removed from the e-mail service, Théberge said, but could not say how many students and staff received these items in their inbox.

Other malicious messages were sent Tuesday and Thursday, acknowledged the leadership of the University. According to her, it is “a senseless act of cyber violence that must be denounced”.

“Messages and images have been erased, but psychological injuries do not heal as quickly,” she said in a statement released on Thursday.