An online threat which sparked fears of a mass shooting at the University of Otago was made via an internet server in Colombia - but the trail ran cold when a Colombian company did not co-operate, a police report reveals. The threat, made on message board 4chan in 2015, included a picture of a pistol and warned people against ''coming to Otago University on Wednesday'', leading to a police presence at the university on the day. The threat was made shortly after a shooting at an Oregon community college. It referred to mass shootings, and was traced to a server belonging to a telecommunications company based in Medellin, Colombia. ''The trail back to the actual origin is really, really, really hard and sometimes impossible,'' he said.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 07, 2018 16:30 UTC