Self-proclaimed ‘hacker’ is caught after using Gmail at home

Texas teenager Zachary Lee Morgenstern pleaded guilty last week after swatting and, before that, making threats to a Minnesota high school. This news comes by way of Ars Technica who reported on the court filings made on August 7.

This case is exceptionally noteworthy since it signifies a rare event in which someone has actually been seized for “swatting”, a crime in which the offender coordinates a faux 911 call, resulting in police arriving at an unsuspecting household.

These phone calls all took place between October 2014 and May 2015 in which the 19-year-old conducted a number of swatting incidents targeting the Marshall, Minnesota region. Additionally, Morgenstern made threats towards a police officer and her family as well as notifying a high school of his plans to detonate a bomb on its premises.