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NHTI

One Spoofed Number, Roughly Ten New Hampshire Campuses, Including NHTI

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Confirmed HoaxDetermined to be a hoax. The institutional response is documented because it reveals how the alert system performed under a perceived real threat.

On August 2, 2022, a single phone number was used to call in bomb threats to approximately 10 higher-education institutions across New Hampshire, with the caller appearing to use a spoofed number and possibly calling from overseas. State officials said they had no information indicating any of the threats were credible. NHTI, Concord's community college, was among the New Hampshire campuses caught up in the coordinated wave.

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NHTI – Concord's Community College
Community College · NH
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Some alert texts below are approximate reconstructions from news coverage, not confirmed verbatim transcripts. Reconstructed texts are shown in italic with a dashed border. Verified verbatim texts have a solid border and are marked accordingly.

INITIAL ALERTEmail
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NHTI Emergency Notification: NHTI is one of several New Hampshire colleges that received a bomb threat today. Law enforcement is investigating. There is no information indicating the threat is credible. Follow any instructions from Campus Safety.

This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.

Reconstructed wording: NHTI's exact notification is not published, so isVerbatimConfirmed is false and confidence is medium.
The NH Department of Safety publicly stated the same spoofed number was used to threaten about 10 higher-education facilities on August 2, 2022 and that none of the threats were known to be credible.
Context

Background

On August 2, 2022, New Hampshire became part of a nationwide wave of college bomb threats. The New Hampshire Department of Safety said the same phone number was used to make bomb threats to approximately 10 higher-education facilities statewide, that the caller appeared to use a spoofed number and may have been overseas, and that there was no information indicating any threat was credible. The Union Leader reported the threats spanned colleges and universities across the state, and that staff at a state Department of Education building on Hall Street in Concord were temporarily evacuated. NHTI — Concord's community college — was among the institutions swept up in the coordinated campaign, which mirrored the simultaneous threats reported the same week in Vermont and elsewhere.
Analysis

Key Findings

A single spoofed phone number was used to threaten roughly 10 New Hampshire higher-education facilities on August 2, 2022
State officials said there was no information indicating any of the threats were credible; no devices were found
NHTI was among the New Hampshire campuses caught in the coordinated, likely-overseas hoax wave
Outcome
The New Hampshire Department of Safety said the same number was used to threaten roughly 10 higher-education facilities statewide on August 2, 2022, and that there was no information indicating any threat was credible. Staff at a state Department of Education building on Hall Street in Concord were temporarily evacuated. No devices were found and no injuries resulted; the threats were treated as a coordinated hoax tied to a nationwide pattern that summer.
Provenance

Sources

  1. Official
    Bomb Threats Target Multiple Higher Education Institutions Across New Hampshire
    dos.nh.gov
  2. News
    Bomb threats called in to colleges, universities across NH
    unionleader.com
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Added May 2026Updated May 2026Via ingestion