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2017 Wichita swatting. On December 28, 2017, a fatal swatting incident occurred in Wichita, Kansas, United States. During an online dispute between Casey Viner and Shane Gaskill regarding the video game Call of Duty: WWII, Viner threatened to have Gaskill swatted. Gaskill responded by giving him a false address for his residence, one that was ...
Swatting. Swatting is a criminal harassment act of deceiving an emergency service (via such means as hoaxing an emergency services dispatcher) into sending a police or emergency service response team to another person's address. This is triggered by false reporting of a serious law enforcement emergency, such as a bomb threat, murder, hostage ...
Gamergate or GamerGate (GG) [1] was a loosely organized misogynistic online harassment campaign and a right-wing backlash against feminism, diversity, and progressivism in video game culture. [2][3][4] It was conducted using the hashtag "#Gamergate" primarily in 2014 and 2015. [1][5][6][7] Gamergate targeted women in the video game industry ...
The swatting left 28-year-old father of two Andrew Finch dead on Dec. 28, 2017, from a gunshot fired by a Wichita police officer among law enforcement responding to what was later deemed a false ...
Here's what you need to know about swatting and hoax threats after four current and former Ohio officials were the latest victims of the crime.
Swatting incidents targeting U.S. schools and colleges have been proliferating for months, with dozens being reported in the days after a deadly shooting at an elementary school in Nashville ...
Sean Whitcomb. Sean Whitcomb is an internet safety advocate and creator of the first anti-swatting registry. [1] He retired from American law enforcement in 2020 to pursue a career in the video game industry. [2] [3] [4]
A federal judge in Washington, DC, is just one of the latest high-profile victims in a new wave of “swatting” incidents occurring during an election season security experts fear will be marked ...