![]() Your less security conscious friends will most likely have no qualms about extolling your virtues or fails online in a way that can be linked to things you have said elsewhere. Even if you’re super careful about having separate emails and nicks for online services and never say anything that can be used to inference anything identifying about you or the things you do/use, you have to make sure that no one else does as well. It’s both harder and easier than it sounds. I assume like most Twitch streamers he has a PayPal account for donations, which means donate 0.01 cent and you either get his real name or a business name you can trace back to his real name. The other thing is that if he’s attempting to do this professionally he’s probably registered with a bunch of organisations that don’t hesitate to give out your personal information. ![]() He probably eased into it over time starting like most with an insignificant hobby channel without ever having a ‘oh, I’m somewhat famous now, better audit my personal privacy’ moment. He wouldn’t have realised he was starting so he didn’t start with a clean slate. I’m guessing he didn’t really think about it too much in the early days and he’s probably been using Koopatroopa787 handle since before Twitch was a thing. Failing that I’m pretty confident that I could play Microsoft, Sony and Valve support off each other to get at least your real name. In those comments I’m sure there’s something that could probably narrow at least your location down a little. I’m obviously not going to stalk you, just bringing this up sounds creepy enough, but just by this account I can see your gamertag, PSN account and Steam account, as well as a little over a thousand comments you’ve made. Thankfully, the police knew to check rather than responding in force again.It’s harder than it sounds. This time, the lie was that he was despondent and suicidal over the danger he had exposed his family to. A few hours later, the attacker tried again, calling the same police department and pretending to be a member of Peters’ family. However, the situation was not quite over. And then the tone shifted as soon as I said ‘I’m streaming on Twitch.TV.’” I said ‘I stream on Twitch.TV, I’m being Swatted, and someone probably prank-called this’. “When we were all laying down, I spoke out. I was going upstairs, and before I knew it, my face was on a tile on the ground, hands wide open and a bunch of police officers with assault rifles.”Īlthough St Cloud police confirmed that Peters was the first Swatting target the city had seen, the officers were aware of the concept, so he was able to defuse the situation. “My channel’s not crazy big, like some of these other mainstream streamers. “There’s no possible persons who I can think would do something like this to me … I’ve seen this happen to other streamers, I just never thought I would be the one to get randomly targeted. Speaking to the Guardian the day after the attack, Peters said he had no idea why he was targeted. I don’t give a shit about what you have against me, or what I did to you. ![]() They could have been shot, they could have died. I had police point a gun at my little brothers because of you. Swat teams in the past have shot and killed a man who called a suicide hotline, thrown a stun grenade in a baby’s cot, and killed more than one family dog.īefore ending the show, the streamer turned back to the audience, and addressed his attacker. The more hyperbolic the threats made on the call, the more likely the police will take an aggressive stance in response. ![]() The aim is typically only to scare the victim, but in practice the attackers risk much more. The practice, known as “Swatting”, is intended to cause the dispatch of armed police to the target’s house. Then on the phone call, the police heard “two gun shots” before the call ended. The caller, he told viewers later, had said that someone “had shot their roommate and now they were pointing their gun at them”. ‘Pointing their gun’Īn anonymous caller to the St Cloud Police Department in Minnesota, where Peters has lived since returning from a tour of duty with the US Air Force in Kuwait, had claimed to live at his address. Peters, who goes by Koopatroopa787 on Twitch, returned to the screen 15 minutes later, visibly shaken and on the verge of tears, to confirm for the remaining viewers that he had been “Swatted”. ![]()
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