Hello, I am investigating a specific threat to carry out a mass shooting at a school in a school district in my jurisdiction tomorrow, January 22nd, 2022, that was sent to school administrators via email from the email address [Redacted]. I’ve worked with entities like TikTok and Comcast in situations like this in the past to make an exigent request for information in an attempt to identify suspects that make specific imminent threats like this. Does Courvix have this type of exigent information request process? Below is the content of the email received by the Ridgefield School District.
[Redacted]
Thank you for your time.
Detective Jared Stevens
Major Crimes Unit (MCU)
Clark County Sheriff’s Office
707 West 13th Street
PO Box 410
Vancouver, WA 98660
Phone: [Censored]
Fax: [Censored]
Hi Jared,
We do indeed have a process for this type of request. We've received a fair few of these cases in the past and fortunately they've all been hoax threats sent by mostly juveniles.
Here's an excerpt from our Privacy Policy on how we share information for legal inquiries.
With the exception of cases involving a threat to life, all legal requests for information must utilize a signed subpoena/court order that compels us to turn over information on our users.
Under our provision on cooperating with legal requests in which life is in danger, we do not require any subpoena or court order to turn over information.
We're currently querying our servers using the information provided to verify this threat.
Kind Regards,
Director
Courvix LTD | Courvix Network
Company Number: 13717150
I really appreciate it. Yes the hoax threats are rampant but I have to look at them all seriously and your assistance is very helpful. Thank you very much.
Detective Jared Stevens
Major Crimes Unit (MCU)
Clark County Sheriff’s Office
707 West 13th Street
PO Box 410
Vancouver, WA 98660
Phone: [Censored]
Fax: [Censored]
Hi,
We've verified this threat did indeed take place from a user that registered [Redacted]. Here's the log of the sent emails, but the user was connected to one of our VPN/proxy servers to register and send the threat, and we do not keep any kind of activity logs for those - only people who are actively connected in real time.
[Redacted]
The user was behind our [Redacted] IP in that log, which is one of our VPN servers located in [Redacted]. The [Redacted] IP is just our CDN service, Cloudflare, so that will not be of much assistance.
And here's the information in our database for this user.
[Redacted]
Let us know how you want to proceed.
Kind Regards,
Director
Courvix LTD | Courvix Network
Company Number: 13717150
So if I’m reading that correctly, there’s no information that would lead me to the actual IP of the person who sent the emails, however it looks like the person was sending emails to numerous school districts this morning? Thank you again.
Detective Jared Stevens
Major Crimes Unit (MCU)
Clark County Sheriff’s Office
707 West 13th Street
PO Box 410
Vancouver, WA 98660
Phone: [Censored]
Fax: [Censored]
At this time, we don't see any indication of the user's real IP address, but we'll keep an eye out.
And yes, it seems as if multiple school districts were threatened. Do you plan on getting in touch with them? I'd like to know whether to expect more of these emails.
Kind Regards,
Director
Courvix LTD | Courvix Network
Company Number: 13717150
I will forward this information to the local school district and my supervisors. I will reach out to the other school districts after speaking to my local one. Thank you again for the quick responses.
Detective Jared Stevens
Major Crimes Unit (MCU)
Clark County Sheriff’s Office
707 West 13th Street
PO Box 410
Vancouver, WA 98660
Phone: [Censored]
Fax: [Censored]
A further 5 emails have not been included in this release