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Wake Forest Urges Vigilance After Spread Of Malicious Emails

Reynolda Hall on the campus of Wake Forest University. PAUL GARBER/WFDD

 

Wake Forest University officials are continuing their investigation of hate-filled anonymous emails that targeted racial and gender/sexual minorities.

A campus-wide message, signed by University President Nathan Hatch and other leaders, encouraged the community to keep an attitude of “If you see, something say something.” 

The emails spreading messages of white supremacy and hate went to seven individuals and five offices on campus.

Wake Forest's cybersecurity team and a national cybersecurity firm tried to identify the sender, but the emails appear to be untraceable. Other universities have received similar emails but tracking the sender has been proven difficult in those cases as well.

University officials say nothing in the emails indicate an immediate or likely threat of physical violence, but they suggest continued vigilance on campus.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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