Swatting

Five-year case concludes with $5 million settlement A Kansas court has settled the 2017 case in which a Witchita resident was shot dead by a police detective after officers responded to a fake “hostage situation” taking place at the man’s…

The Wichita City Council in Kansas has reached a $5 million settlement in a lawsuit filed by the family of Andrew Finch, who was killed by police in the first fatal swatting incident in the U.S. over an online Call of Duty…

The Department of Justice said on Monday that two men have been charged in a scheme that involved hacking Ring security cameras outside homes, drawing and sometimes taunting police, and then broadcasting the antics on…

At 1:15 pm on September 15, a man who identified himself as Tom Gomez called Sangamon County Central Dispatch in Illinois to report that two gunmen had shot a dozen students at Springfield High School. According to call audio obtained by…

Fly brains can process images very quickly. www.shutterexperiments.com/Moment via GettyImagesSitting outside on a summer evening always sounds relaxing until flies and mosquitoes arrive – then the swatting begins. Despite…

Twitch streamer Clara ‘Keffals’ Sorrenti woke up on August 5 to armed police raiding her home, pointing an “assault rifle” in her face. It follows a campaign of harassment she has experienced whilst streaming on Twitch, and she has now…

Hearthstone streamer Alexandra Alliestrasza Macpherson was swatted mid-stream, with police handcuffing her and her family. Macpherson is one of the most prominent female Hearthstone streamers on Twitch, and last night (February 9) her…

Smart, blunt and plain-spoken, Mr. Herring had loved computers since he was a teenager and joined Twitter in March 2007, less than a year after it started, his family said.He knew people wanted his handle, which he chose because of his love…