94 Australian public schools will be without email for up to a week after students responded to mistaken use of a mailing list with horrible content, which in turn sparked a Reply-All storm that asked for the circulation of email nasties to stop.
The affected schools are in the Australian Capital Territory, a region of Australia that houses the nation’s capital city of Canberra.
The incident started last Friday, when the local Education Directorate says student inboxes started to fill with “spam emails containing inappropriate material.”
Local media reports that the emails included links to smut, photos of genitalia and images of deceased children.
The Directorate quickly came to the conclusion that “students gained access to system email distribution lists and inappropriately used these to send emails to their ..
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