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Titre: [kreb]Bomb Threat Hoaxer Exposed by Hacked Gaming Site
Posté par: igor51 le février 14, 2019, 07:00:07
Bomb Threat Hoaxer Exposed by Hacked Gaming Site

Federal 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.
Source: Bomb Threat Hoaxer Exposed by Hacked Gaming Site (https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/02/bomb-threat-hoaxer-exposed-by-hacked-gaming-site/)