Bosses at the University of Manchester have issued an update after students and staff were sent a series of chilling emails threatening to 'destroy lives.'
A number of students and alumni are said to have been directly written to by the university, alerting them that a 'small proportion of data' has been copied in a cyber attack.
It comes after terrified students told the M.E.N they'd received messages from supposed hackers, who claimed to have obtained addresses, police reports, academic investigations and health data from the university network.
