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February 13, 2019

Bomb Threat Hoaxer Exposed by Hacked Gaming Site

This post was originally published on this siteFederal authorities this week arrested a North Carolina man who allegedly ran with a group of online hooligans that attacked Web sites (including this one), took requests on Twitter to call in bomb threats to thousands of schools, and tried to frame various online gaming sites as the culprits. In an ironic twist, the accused — who had fairly well separated his real life identity from his online personas — appears to have been caught after a gaming Web site he frequented got hacked. On Feb. 12, the U.S. Justice Department announced the […]