Tech terror as AI-generated bomb threat forces California school closure
An anonymous threat, an AI-generated voice and a $15,000 ransom demand threw a Northern California high school into chaos on Tuesday morning. The Wheatland Police Department received an anonymous bomb threat overnight targeting Wheatland Union High School in Yuba County.
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An anonymous threat, an AI-generated voice and a $15,000 ransom demand threw a Northern California high school into chaos on Tuesday morning. The Wheatland Police Department received an anonymous bomb threat overnight targeting Wheatland Union High School in Yuba County. Using a fake, AI-generated voice, the caller claimed a bomb was set to detonate at the high school unless $15,000 in cash was left inside a box, Superintendent Nicole Newman told Fox 40. Law enforcement swarmed the area before dawn, conducting a perimeter check before alerting district officials just before 6 a.m.
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- An anonymous threat, an AI-generated voice and a $15,000 ransom demand threw a Northern California high school into chaos on Tuesday morning. The Wheatland Police Department received an anonymous bomb threat overnight targeting Wheatland Union High School in Yuba County.
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