U of M receives 10th malicious email Saturday night

The University of Moncton received another malicious email Saturday night that was circulated to students and staff, but was quickly erased by the school's ITdepartment.

It isn't clear how many people received the email, which marks the 10thonetheuniversity has dealt with in the past week.

The emails have targeted a female student, include images and have been described as hateful and sexual in nature.

University officials believetheemailsoriginatefrom a server outside of the country.

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Theuniversity said in a statement Sundaythat it's continuing to work withRCMPand external experts to stop the degradingemails.

The ninthemail, sent on Thursday, reached 2,000 students and staff.

The university saidit wouldn't comment further on the caseso as not to harm the ongoing investigation.

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