Two computer hackers have been charged with sending false bomb and mass shooting threats to hundreds of schools in Britain and the U.S., including dozens in southern California, according to a federal indictment unsealed Tuesday.
The defendants, according to an NBC News report, are members of the Apophis Squad, a worldwide collective of computer hackers intent on using the internet to sow chaos, the indictment says.
Timothy Dalton Vaughn, 20, of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was arrested Tuesday by FBI agents. The second defendant named in the indictment, George Duke-Cohan, 19, of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, is serving a prison sentence in Britain for making a hoax threat targeting an airliner.
