{"id":40788,"date":"2025-09-10T17:00:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/swatting-hoax-at-usc-traced-to-online-group-says-sc-attorney-general\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T17:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T21:00:17","slug":"swatting-hoax-at-usc-traced-to-online-group-says-sc-attorney-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/2025\/09\/10\/swatting-hoax-at-usc-traced-to-online-group-says-sc-attorney-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Swatting Hoax at USC Traced to Online Group, Says SC Attorney General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EmUfWV-Xch8?cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>The South Carolina Attorney General has confirmed that the swatting hoax that shut down the University of South Carolina campus on August 24 was orchestrated by an online group. In a statement released today, Attorney General Alan Wilson said a self-proclaimed leader of the group admitted responsibility during an interview with Wired.com.<\/p>\n<p>The false report of an active shooter led to an hours-long lockdown and widespread panic before law enforcement confirmed there was no actual threat. The investigation remains ongoing as officials work to identify and charge those responsible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The South Carolina Attorney General has confirmed that the swatting hoax that shut down the University of South<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":40789,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upstate-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40788\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolfm.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}