Harvard Crimson receives email threat days after bomb scare
The email had the subject line “Harvard Bombing Confession.’’
A reporter for The Harvard Crimson received an email threat from an unidentified sender days after Harvard police evacuated several campus buildings due to a bomb threat.
The email, which had the subject line “Harvard Bombing Confession,’’ was sent to a reporter Wednesday morning, according to an article in The Crimson. The unidentified sender implied involvement in the bomb threat Monday and threatened to take unspecified action if the student newspaper didn’t publish the email message.
The sender used a medium often associated with hidden websites known as “the dark web,’’ and threatened further action if federal authorities weren’t able to solve a cryptic message, according to The Crimson. The paper said the email was signed with what appeared to be a false name.
Crimson editors complied with a subpoena on Wednesday from federal investigators related to the threat, turning over a “narrow’’ span of traffic logs to the paper’s website.
The paper’s president, Steven Lee, didn’t elaborate on the details of the subpoena.
Steven Catalano, a spokesman for the Harvard University Police Department, said Thursday morning that the investigation is active and ongoing.
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