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Teen hacker linked to ‘Evacuators 2K16’ released by French police

Posted on February 21, 2016 by Dissent

Will Stewart and Peter Allen report:

A teenage computer wizard with links to bomb threats against schools all over the world has been released by police in France.

Vincent Lauton, an 18-year-old who still lives with his parents, was being questioned by detectives in Paris over the bomb hoax threats which spread fear from the UK to Australia with ‘You Will Die’ messages that prompted mass security operations.

Lauton has since been been released without charge and now has the status of an ‘assisted witness’ in the investigation.

Read more on Daily Mail.

Note: this report is from Feb. 11, but I missed it at the time. Sorry, folks…

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