Neo-Nazi SWATters Target Dozens of Journalists
Summary: A far-right group maintaining a Deep Web database called the Doxbin has listed the personal information of more than 400 people, including 32 journalists at publications such as CNN, Politico, ProPublica and Vox, and has claimed responsibility for dozens of bomb threats and swatting incidents. At least two listed journalists were swatted in the prior six months, including Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Leonard G. Pitts Jr., and the site is tied to an IRC channel where members discuss doxing and swatting and to an individual who says he also maintained the white supremacist site SiegeCulture.
Key Takeaway: Swatting is not abstract harassment: in March 2019, serial swatter Tyler Barriss was sentenced to 20 years for a phony emergency call that led to the shooting death of an innocent Kansas resident, and the Doxbin lists home addresses, phone numbers, Social Security numbers and even the personal information of targets' friends and family.
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