Read the dramatic email from the office manager and choose the correct phrase to complete it.

Please remain calm, everyone. I regret to inform you that our beloved espresso machine ___ by a rogue toaster at 3:00 AM last night.

The correct answer is was destroyed.

We use the past simple passive (was destroyed) because the sentence mentions a specific time in the past ("at 3:00 AM last night"). The present perfect passive ("has been destroyed") cannot be used with a specific past time marker. Since the espresso machine received the action, the active form ("destroyed") is incorrect.