The Italian government announced that hundreds of schools in that country were temporarily evacuated on Wednesday, November 11, after receiving a "bomb threat".
This is the latest example of the series of hacking and bomb threats that have been made in the past week against supermarkets, blood donation centers, watchtowers and television networks in the corners of the European continent.
Italian Education Minister Giuseppe Valditra on Wednesday put the number of evacuated schools at more than 300, but added that the threats were false.
At the same time, UK news channels reported that a number of schools in Scotland and Northern Ireland also faced a bomb threat that day.
The Ministry of Education in Ireland defined the number of these schools as high, but said that the threat was not considered serious and credible. According to the Reuters news agency, the email sent to the schools on Wednesday was signed by the name of "Mikhail Andropov", who sent an email with the same name to news networks in Ireland and Bulgaria last Friday.