{"id":9995,"date":"2011-02-11T00:53:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T22:53:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"moron-arrested-for-hijacking-xbl-gamertag-making-death-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/9995-moron-arrested-for-hijacking-xbl-gamertag-making-death-threats","title":{"rendered":"Moron arrested for hijacking XBL Gamertag, making death threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Proving that, somewhat contrary to popular misconception, the internet really is serious business, a teenager has been arrested and charged in Maryland, US for hijacking some kid&rsquo;s Xbox LIVE Gamertag and issuing death threats to everybody on his friend list.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the unnamed perp got hold of the account&rsquo;s login details via some sort of transaction on a &ldquo;third party website&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;After obtaining this user name and password the Maryland teenager sent a message to nearly 100 people, including students at Berkeley Heights High School pretending to be the user,&rdquo; said local prosecutor, Theodore J. Romankow. The message claimed he&rsquo;d bring a gun to school the next day, and play Counter-Strike IRL.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Someone called the rozzers, and after the account holder denied sending the message, the real sender was tracked down to a location in Maryland and promptly taught an important life lesson about consequences. Sensible people everywhere were quoted as saying, &ldquo;Lol, what a noob.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don\u2019t do this at home, boys and girls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}