A student’s email was hacked from someone in the Netherlands leading to a false bomb threat in Wright City Friday night.Wright City Police Chief Matt Eskew reported that all three Wright City R-II …
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A student’s email was hacked from someone in the Netherlands leading to a false bomb threat in Wright City Friday night.Wright City Police Chief Matt Eskew reported that all three Wright City R-II School District buildings located within the city — middle school, high school and West elementary — were searched as a precaution following the threat. No evidence of a bomb was found.The threat was reported to police after the assistant principal at the middle school received an email stating there was a bomb placed in the school, Eskew said. Bomb-sniffing dogs from Lambert-St. Louis International Airport were called in to assist, along with other law enforcement agencies.During the investigation, Eskew said police learned that a student's email account had been hacked into by someone residing in the Netherlands, a country in western Europe.Hacked email leads to Wright City bomb scare
