The PLA is NOT a malicious group.
My low post count here caused you to go into PR mode, lawl. And since when is the PLA a group? Not only that, a group with a governing body that somehow regulates what random people on a forum do with their phones?
Back on the old Cal forums I remember people posting a prank call impersonating a police officer to another officer, and another one where they called a big retail store and pretended to be store security, then accused a store employee of shoplifting and got them to do all kinds of silly things. Yeah, this news story is a huge stretch.
I laughed when I read this story because I've talked to people on bridges from these forums that I know would totally do something like this if given the chance.