US and Canada have received email bomb threats. Toronto Metro is temporarily evacuated.

Chinanews.com reported on December 14th that law enforcement officials said that on the 13th local time, hundreds of companies, public offices and schools across the United States and Canada received a large number of bomb threats, requiring payment in cryptocurrency, but these threats It seems that it is not credible. Some of the themes of the email were: "Thinking before you go." The sender claimed that he had an assistant put a small bomb in the recipient's building, and the only way to stop him from detonating the bomb was to pay online 2 Ten thousand dollars of bitcoin. The New York City Police Department’s counter-terrorism department said on Twitter: “We are currently monitoring a number of bomb threats that are sent electronically to various locations in New York City.” “These threats have also been reported to other parts of the country and are not currently considered It is credible." Police devices have not been found in police stations across the United States, and preliminary investigations have shown that these may be "bullish" threats. The authorities said that no real bombs were found four hours after the security panic. But these threats prompted a brief departure from a subway station in Toronto and a newspaper in Raleigh, North Carolina. As a precautionary measure, some public schools and businesses have also been evacuated. Lieutenant Andy Binder, a spokesperson for the Sheriff in Lincoln, Missouri, said the authorities used buses to transport students from one secondary school to another as a precautionary measure, but the school later decided to be safe. The class will resume on Friday. Other cities reported by the authorities include Washington, New York, Detroit, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Oklahoma City, Denver, Ottawa, and Calgary in Alberta. The FBI said they are assisting law enforcement agencies dealing with these threats. Not long ago, the CNN headquarters and Facebook in the United States just received a threat of telephone fraud. In October of this year, the United States was caused by a wave of suspicious bomb packages sent to celebrity politicians.

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