Incident analyses
Public, already-reported cases. For each one we trace what was exposed, and what it means for your own risk.
The through-line is the same across most of these: personal information anyone can buy is what points strangers toward a home and family. That is the exposure a scan finds.
- 2026-04 · Little Rock, ArkansasAddress exposure
Threat actor 'kittykatkrew' leaked Arkansas State Crime Lab personnel directory and court calendars in 2026
In April 2026, a threat actor calling itself 'kittykatkrew' breached an Arkansas State Crime Lab database and leaked the full personnel directory plus active court calendars. The exposed data included names, work emails, phone numbers, job titles, and employing agencies for prosecutors, police, and city officials across Arkansas, alongside defendant names, court dates, forensic-analyst assignments, and prosecutor contacts.
- 2026-04 · Sioux Falls, South DakotaDoxxing
South Dakota Supreme Court seals officers' names in 2024 shooting case under Marsy's Law
In April 2026, the South Dakota Supreme Court let two officers keep their names sealed in a 2024 shooting case, holding that Marsy's Law can protect officers from being located and harassed. Earlier that year the legislature passed HB 1298, a new law against doxxing officers and judges, which took effect July 1, 2026.
- 2026-04 · Evangeline Parish, LouisianaOther
Five Louisiana officials in Evangeline Parish arrested in 2026, accused of leaking active-investigation data to a defendant
In April 2026, Louisiana State Police arrested five public officials in Evangeline Parish, including a mayor, a 911 dispatch supervisor, and three sworn officers, for accessing state law-enforcement databases and sharing active-investigation data with a criminal defendant. This is an inverted case: officials caused the exposure of protected victim and witness information rather than having their own data leaked.
- 2026-03 · North CarolinaDoxxing
North Carolina activist mailed 'beware your neighbor is an ICE agent' postcards to an officer's neighbors in 2026
In March 2026, an activist mailed postcards to the neighbors of a federal ICE officer in North Carolina. Each postcard carried the officer's photograph and identified him as an ICE agent. The campaign turned home-address data, the kind sold on people-search sites, into a physical mailing.
- 2026-03 · Jackson County, IndianaAddress exposure
FBI and DHS investigated a 2026 cyberattack on Jackson County, Indiana sheriff's network
In March 2026, a ransomware attack disrupted Jackson County, Indiana's computer network and drew the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The same month, DeKalb County, Indiana disclosed a separate breach that may have exposed residents' Social Security and driver's license numbers.
- 2026-03 · Los Angeles, CaliforniaDoxxing
Federal prosecutors in LA escalate doxxing charges against anti-ICE activists (March 2026)
In March 2026, federal prosecutors in Los Angeles were escalating their use of a federal doxxing charge against activists who publicized ICE agents. The charge, 18 U.S.C. § 119, makes it a crime to publish a federal official's home address or similar personal information with intent to threaten. Prosecutors have used it only a handful of times, and courts and juries have not always found the elements met. For officers, the underlying exposure is the same either way: once a face and name are public, a home address can be pulled from commercial data-broker and people-search sites.
- 2026-02 · Grand Rapids, MichiganDoxxing
Grand Rapids man charged in 2026 for doxxing the wrong man after a fatal police shooting
In early 2026, a Grand Rapids man was charged after a Facebook post misidentified an innocent man as the officer in a fatal police shooting and published his home address and family details. The man he named had no connection to the police department.
- 2026-02 · Schaumburg, IllinoisDoxxing
Schaumburg, IL man charged with threatening FBI agent using stolen agent roster (February 2026)
After anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis took FBI documents from government vehicles, including rosters with agents' home addresses and contact information, a Schaumburg, Illinois man used that data to threaten an FBI special agent and reference his family. Jose Alberto Ramirez, 28, was charged in early February 2026 with transmitting a threat.
- 2026-01 · North CarolinaDoxxing
Libs of TikTok doxes North Carolina nurse over Pretti/Renée Good post, tags state nursing board
In late January 2026, Chaya Raichik, who operates the Libs of TikTok accounts, doxxed a North Carolina nurse who had posted a critical comment about federal agents involved in the Minneapolis killings of Alex Pretti and Renée Good. Raichik reposted the nurse's photo, tagged his hospital, and tagged the North Carolina Board of Nursing with a call to revoke his license. The nurse was not publicly named in the coverage reviewed.
- 2026-01 · Federal (nationwide)Doxxing
ICE List publishes personal data on roughly 4,500 more ICE, Border Patrol, and DHS employees in January 2026 leak
ICE List launched in June 2025 and had gathered the names of about 2,000 ICE and Border Patrol employees. Days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renée Good in Minneapolis on January 7, 2026, the site's operator said a Department of Homeland Security whistleblower helped supply personal data on roughly 4,500 more people connected to ICE: names, work emails, phone numbers, job titles, and background information. The operator runs the site from the Netherlands. Meta began blocking links to it across Facebook, Instagram, and Threads.
- 2026-01 · Joplin, MissouriStalking
Joplin officer no longer employed in 2026 after about 395 license plate queries on one vehicle
A Joplin, Missouri police officer was no longer employed in January 2026 after an internal audit found about 395 queries on one license plate through the department's Flock reader system, logged as 'DWI' or 'Warrants' with no case numbers. The pattern of tracking one person through department tools matches how a stalker uses a data broker site.
- 2026-01 · Minneapolis (theft) and Schaumburg, Illinois (charged)Family targeting
Stolen FBI agent roster used to threaten agents and reach an agent's child (2026)
During unrest after a Minneapolis shooting in January 2026, people ransacked unsecured FBI vehicles and took staff rosters listing agents' home addresses, phone numbers, emails, and driver's license numbers. Within weeks, agents and their families were being threatened. One agent was contacted by 23 different people, and an agent's child was reached on social media. A Schaumburg, Illinois man was charged in February.
- 2025-12 · Warren County, KentuckyAddress exposure
Warren County, Kentucky Sheriff's Office breach exposed Social Security and driver's license numbers
The Warren County Sheriff's Office in Kentucky detected a network breach in December 2025 and notified affected people in March 2026. Exposed data included names, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, and health insurance ID numbers. The ransomware group RansomHouse claimed credit.
- 2025-11 · Madison County, MississippiOther
Madison County Youth Court Judge Staci O'Neal's email account was breached after a spam email in 2025
In October 2025, a spam email opened on Madison County Youth Court Judge Staci O'Neal's phone gave attackers access to her county email account. County documents show the mailbox held an active case report and information on minors in the youth court system.
- 2025-09 · Denver, ColoradoStalking
Colorado Chief Justice Monica Márquez describes the doxxing, spoofing, and swatting of the state Supreme Court
In September 2025, Colorado Chief Justice Monica Márquez publicly described the harassment campaign against the state Supreme Court after its 2023 decision to remove Donald Trump from the ballot. She detailed doxxing, spoofing, unsolicited pizza deliveries, and the swatting of a fellow justice. It is a rare on-the-record account by a sitting state chief justice of threats against the bench.
- 2025-09 · Denver, ColoradoDoxxing
Denver police commander doxxing: first conviction under Colorado's anti-doxxing law (2026)
A Denver activist was convicted under Colorado's anti-doxxing statute after reading a police commander's home address aloud on a livestream and suggesting followers gather at his home. It is the first known conviction under the law, and the defense plans a First Amendment appeal.
- 2025-08 · Federal (nationwide)Doxxing
An activist uses PimEyes facial recognition to identify ICE officers, then finds home addresses through broker sites (August 2025)
Dominick Skinner, an immigration activist running a project called ICE List, used AI to reconstruct the unmasked faces of ICE officers from raid footage, then ran those images through PimEyes, a commercial facial recognition search engine, to find matching public photos and names. Cross-referencing the results with public records and people-search sites produced home addresses. Senator Marsha Blackburn raised concerns in September 2025 and pressed PimEyes again in November 2025. PimEyes says it is a search engine that does not unmask anyone. As of that reporting, no criminal charges against the activist had been made public.
- 2025-08 · MarylandAddress exposure
Rhysida ransomware group claimed a 2025 attack on the Maryland Transit Administration, exposing addresses and IDs
The Rhysida ransomware group claimed a 2025 attack on the Maryland Transit Administration and said it had stolen Social Security numbers, driver's license details, home addresses, and passport data tied to Maryland residents. The agency confirmed data loss. The state says it did not pay the ransom.
- 2025-07 · Federal (nationwide)Doxxing
Federal judges doxxing wave: 126 federal threat prosecutions in 2025, 400+ tracked threats to judges
CBS News counted 126 people federally charged in 2025 with threatening public officials, with doxxing often preceding the threats. The Speak Up for Justice coalition reported more than 400 threats against judges by mid-2025. The federal judiciary accelerated a case management system upgrade after a July 2025 hack exposed sealed filings. US District Judge R. Brooke Jackson was doxxed and later allowed ICE agents to testify under only their initials.
- 2025-06 · Brooklyn Park, MinnesotaFamily targeting
How the Hortman gunman used 11 data broker sites to find home addresses (2025)
On June 14, 2025, Vance Boelter killed Minnesota State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark and shot State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. Investigators recovered a handwritten list of 11 data broker websites from his vehicle. Court filings describe those people-search sites as how he found the home addresses, with no insider source or technical skill involved.
- 2025-06 · Brooklyn Park and Champlin, MinnesotaAddress exposure
Minnesota lawmaker shootings: gunman used a list of 11 data broker sites to find home addresses (June 2025)
Before dawn on June 14, 2025, Vance Boelter shot four people at two Minnesota lawmakers' homes. He killed State Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark and wounded State Senator John Hoffman and his wife Yvette. According to the FBI affidavit, Boelter located the home addresses using a list of 11 data broker websites found in his vehicle, alongside notebooks naming dozens of other elected officials with their home addresses. He pleaded guilty to six federal counts in June 2026.
- 2025-02 · Washington StateAddress exposure
Does v. Seattle Police: Washington Supreme Court ruling on who must protect officer identities in public-records requests
After the January 6, 2021 rally in Washington, D.C., members of the public asked the Seattle Police Department for records identifying SPD officers who attended. The officers sued as John and Jane Does to block release. A King County court denied their injunction. The Court of Appeals reversed in 2023, ruling that the agency itself had to assert the officers' constitutional privacy before releasing records. On February 13, 2025, the Washington Supreme Court reversed that ruling in a unanimous decision. It held that public employees have no constitutional privacy interest in attending a highly public event, and that an agency does not have to assert constitutional exemptions for third parties. Under RCW 42.56.540, an agency may choose to notify the people named in the records, but that notice is discretionary, not required. The burden of going to court to block release sits with the affected officer.
- 2025-02 · Milwaukee, WisconsinAddress exposure
Bell Ambulance cyberattack exposed personal data on 237,830 people in Wisconsin in 2025
Bell Ambulance, the largest ambulance provider in Wisconsin, disclosed a 2025 cyberattack that exposed personal and medical information on 237,830 people. The stolen data included Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, financial account information, and medical and health insurance records.
- 2025-01 · Cleveland County, OklahomaDoxxing
Oklahoma man arrested in 2025 for allegedly doxxing a Cleveland County sheriff and deputy; no charges followed
In January 2025 an Oklahoma man, Michael Reynolds, was arrested and accused under the Oklahoma Computer Crimes Act and a statute that bars publishing a peace officer's or public official's identifying information. Prosecutors said he posted the home addresses of Cleveland County Sheriff Chris Amason and a former deputy, drawn from court records, along with details of a patrol-car crash. Reynolds said the records were already public and called the arrest retaliation. Investigators never formally filed the charges; the district attorney recused, the matter went to the state attorney general, and no charges were ultimately pursued.
- 2024-11 · Middletown, ConnecticutAddress exposure
Westfield Fire District in Middletown, CT notified residents of a 2024 ransomware data breach
Westfield Fire District in Middletown, Connecticut sent breach notification letters in May 2025 about a cyberattack from November 2024. The Medusa ransomware group claimed the attack and demanded a $100,000 ransom. The district offered 24 months of credit monitoring, which under Connecticut law usually means Social Security numbers were exposed.
- 2024-08 · West VirginiaAddress exposure
Retired West Virginia officer sued Whitepages in 2024 under the state's Daniel's Law analog
In August 2024, a retired West Virginia officer filed a class-action suit against Whitepages, alleging the site published home addresses and unlisted phone numbers of covered public servants without permission, in violation of W. Va. Code §5A-8-24, the state's version of Daniel's Law. A federal judge dismissed the case with prejudice in August 2025, ruling the statute's private-lawsuit provision unconstitutional under the First Amendment. The removal-request mechanics that protect an officer's home address do not depend on that one provision surviving.
- 2024-05 · New York, New YorkDoxxing
Manhattan Trump-trial jurors and Michael Cohen's family doxxed in days following May 2024 guilty verdict
Within 24 hours of the May 30, 2024 guilty verdict in the Manhattan Trump criminal trial, Trump supporters on online forums began trying to identify and post the home addresses of jurors, alongside threats of violence. In the days after the verdict, personal information about Michael Cohen's family was posted online after Cohen had testified for the prosecution. Reporting did not confirm that any juror's real home address was published, but the targeting effort was coordinated and high in volume.
- 2024-02 · New JerseyAddress exposure
20,000 New Jersey officers sue 118 data brokers under Daniel's Law (2024)
In February 2024, Atlas Data Privacy Corporation filed 118 class-action lawsuits in New Jersey Superior Court on behalf of about 20,000 active and retired police officers, prosecutors, judges, and corrections officers. The suits alleged that data-broker companies, including LexisNexis, Whitepages, Spokeo, and BeenVerified, had failed to remove the officers' home addresses and phone numbers after written demands under Daniel's Law. It is the largest public test of whether the broker-removal system actually works.
- 2024-01 · Washington DC, New York, and other US locationsSwatting
Federal judge swatting wave (January 2024): Chutkan, Engoron, and others
In late 2023 and January 2024, a wave of swatting calls targeted federal and state judges, a special counsel, prosecutors, and other public officials connected to high-profile cases. The calls drew national attention and led to federal prosecutions.
- 2023-12 · Manchester, MaineAddress exposure
Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows: home swatted a day after her address was posted online (December 2023)
On December 29, 2023, Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows's home in Manchester, Maine was targeted by a swatting call. The night before, her home address had been posted online. Bellows had ruled the previous day that Donald Trump was ineligible for the Maine primary ballot. Federal prosecutors later charged two foreign nationals in a conspiracy that included the call.
- 2023-10 · New York, New YorkDoxxing
Letitia James home address shared on Truth Social, Judge Merchan's daughter targeted during Manhattan Trump trial
Two doxxing incidents targeted officials connected to Donald Trump's New York legal cases. On October 17, 2023, Trump reposted a Laura Loomer Substack piece on Truth Social that included New York Attorney General Letitia James's home address. In April 2024, Trump's social-media posts about Judge Juan Merchan's daughter, Loren Merchan, led Judge Merchan to expand the existing gag order to cover family members.
- 2023-10 · KansasAddress exposure
Kansas Office of Judicial Administration cyberattack exfiltrated personal data in 2023
A cyberattack on the Kansas Office of Judicial Administration in October 2023 stole files holding personal information. The state later reported the breach affected roughly 150,000 people and began notifying those it could identify.
- 2023-08 · Atlanta, GeorgiaDoxxing
Fulton County grand jurors doxxed after the Trump indictment: how public names led to home addresses
Home addresses, photos, and personal details of the Fulton County grand jurors who indicted Donald Trump on RICO charges were posted on far-right forums within 48 hours of the indictment. Georgia indictments list grand juror names by standard practice. Once the names were public, the addresses were a lookup away on commercial people-search sites.
- 2023-08 · Atlanta, GeorgiaDoxxing
Fulton County DA Fani Willis: home address and family info posted online during Trump Georgia case (2023)
After the August 2023 Fulton County indictment of Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants, personal information for Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, her family, and the grand jurors who signed the indictment was posted online, including home addresses. Two men were federally charged over threats against Willis. One was sentenced to federal prison; the other was indicted on interstate-threat charges.
- 2023-03 · Washington, DCAddress exposure
DC Health Link breach exposed personal data of members of Congress and staff in 2023
A misconfigured server at DC Health Link exposed personal information for tens of thousands of enrollees, including members of Congress, congressional staff, and their families. The stolen data was offered for sale on a public hacking forum.
- 2022-08 · Boston, MassachusettsDoxxing
Catherine Leavy convicted of hoax bomb threat against Boston Children's Hospital after Libs of TikTok campaign
After Libs of TikTok and other far-right accounts amplified attacks on Boston Children's Hospital's pediatric gender program in August 2022, Catherine Leavy of Westfield, Massachusetts called in a hoax bomb threat. The FBI arrested her on September 15, 2022; she pleaded guilty in September 2023 and was sentenced in July 2024 to three years of probation. The hospital was targeted with additional bomb threats over the following months.
- 2022-08 · West Palm Beach, FloridaDoxxing
Judge Bruce Reinhart doxxed within hours of signing the Mar-a-Lago search warrant
Federal magistrate judge Bruce Reinhart was doxxed within hours of his name becoming public as the judge who signed the Mar-a-Lago search warrant. His home address, phone numbers, and family members' names spread across 4chan, TheDonald, and other message boards alongside antisemitic threats. The federal court took his information off its public website, and his synagogue canceled a Shabbat service.
- 2022-07 · Indianapolis, IndianaDoxxing
Caitlin Bernard, Indianapolis OB-GYN, doxxed and investigated by Indiana AG after providing abortion to 10-year-old rape victim
Indianapolis OB-GYN Caitlin Bernard provided a legal abortion to a 10-year-old rape victim from Ohio. After the story broke, her name, employer, and personal details circulated nationally; she received death threats; Indiana's attorney general opened an investigation.
- 2022-04 · IdahoDoxxing
Idaho extremist groups ran doxxing campaigns against judges, prosecutors, and health workers in 2022
In 2022, Idaho activists shared photos, home addresses, and phone numbers of judges, prosecutors, a deputy prosecutor, police officers, and health workers online to interfere with court and child-protection cases. Reporting named a magistrate judge and a deputy prosecuting attorney among the targets.
- 2022-02 · Windsor and Ottawa, CanadaDoxxing
RCMP withheld officers' badge numbers over doxxing fears in the 2022 Freedom Convoy
During the 2022 Freedom Convoy protests, the RCMP refused to release the badge numbers of officers who cleared the Ambassador Bridge blockade at the Windsor, Ontario border crossing. A briefing note to the RCMP commissioner cited concern that convoy supporters would use the numbers to identify and dox individual officers. In the same period, counter-protesters and online activists doxxed convoy participants, identifying individual truckers and, in some cases, their employers. Doxxing ran in both directions during a politically charged protest.
- 2022-02 · United States / CanadaDoxxing
GiveSendGo breach exposes ~100,000 Freedom Convoy donors, including Ontario police officers
In February 2022, hackers breached GiveSendGo and leaked personal information for roughly 90,000 to 104,000 people who donated to the Canadian Freedom Convoy fundraiser. The data included names, email addresses, ZIP and postal codes, donation amounts, and IP addresses. Reporting by The Intercept and CBC identified Oath Keepers members, US public officials, and current and former Ontario police officers among the donors. The Ontario Provincial Police opened an internal conduct investigation into members who appeared on the list.
- 2021-06 · Anchorage, AlaskaAddress exposure
Anchorage Police Department exposed unredacted traffic-collision reports for 11,402 people in 2021
From April 2019 through February 2021, the Anchorage Police Department uploaded unredacted traffic-collision reports to LexisNexis, exposing personal information for 11,402 people. The reports included full dates of birth and driver's-license numbers, both covered by the federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act. The department disclosed the exposure in June 2021 and offered affected people credit monitoring.
- 2020-08 · Snohomish County, WashingtonFamily targeting
Protesters at Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best's home: neighbors' personal information posted online (Snohomish County, 2020)
On August 1, 2020, a crowd gathered outside the Snohomish County home of Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best. Best was not home. According to local reporting, several neighbors' names and home addresses had been posted online before the crowd arrived, people photographed homes and recorded license plates, and children in the neighborhood were asked which schools they attended. Neighbors blocked a road into the community with a truck, and by the chief's account kept the crowd from trespassing; protesters said they were met by armed residents.
- 2020-07 · Portland, OregonDoxxing
Portland federal-officer doxxing wave: about 38 officers' information posted online during 2020 protests
During the summer 2020 protests in Portland, the Federal Protective Service, a Department of Homeland Security component, said that about 38 of its officers had been doxxed, with names, photos, and personal information posted online. The wave overlapped with the BlueLeaks dump, which exposed roughly 269 GB of internal police files dating back to 1996, and CBP authorized officers to cover their name tags because of the doxxing risk.
- 2020-07 · North Brunswick, New JerseyFamily targeting
The 2020 attack on Judge Esther Salas's family: the case behind Daniel's Law
Daniel Anderl, the 20-year-old son of US District Judge Esther Salas, was shot and killed at his family's North Brunswick, New Jersey home on July 19, 2020. The attacker, an attorney who had appeared before the judge, had located the family through her home address and kept a file of personal details on her. Eight days earlier he killed California attorney Marc Angelucci at his front door, using the same delivery-driver cover. The case led to Daniel's Law in New Jersey and the federal Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act.
- 2020-07 · Hennepin County, MinnesotaAddress exposure
Hennepin County first-responder data leak: roughly 1,500 first responders and security staff exposed in 2020
In July 2020, the Minnesota Reformer reported that personal information for roughly 1,500 first responders, corporate security staff, and stadium security personnel tied to the Hennepin County Sheriff's Office had been published online. The data came from a breach of the county's web vendor, part of the larger BlueLeaks release.
- 2020-04 · Bethpage, TennesseeSwatting
Mark Herring: fatal swatting over a Twitter handle (Tennessee, 2020)
Mark Herring, a 60-year-old Tennessee resident, died of a heart attack during a police response to a false emergency call. The call was retaliation by a group trying to force him to hand over the @Tennessee Twitter handle. One of them posted his home address in a Discord server after he refused to sell.
- 2019-11 · Fairfax County, VirginiaAddress exposure
Fairfax County Police data breach exposed personal information of more than 1,700 employees in 2019
In November 2019, the Fairfax County Police Department disclosed a data breach involving personal information of its employees. Early counts put the number near 500; the department later traced it to more than 1,700 sworn officers and civilian staff. The exposed data included names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers.
- 2018-06 · United States (online)Doxxing
Sam Lavigne scrapes 1,595 ICE employees from LinkedIn, GitHub and Medium remove the data within 24 hours
On June 19, 2018, Sam Lavigne, an artist and programmer who taught at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, published a database on GitHub containing names, profile photos, job titles, and city-level locations of 1,595 individuals who listed Immigration and Customs Enforcement as their employer on LinkedIn. GitHub and Medium removed the data within 24 hours under their anti-harassment policies. WikiLeaks republished it the same week as 'ICEPatrol.'
- 2017-12 · Wichita, KansasSwatting
Andrew Finch: fatally shot by police responding to a swatting call (Wichita, 2017)
Andrew Finch, a 28-year-old uninvolved bystander, was shot and killed by Wichita police responding to a fake hostage call placed over a $1.50 online gaming dispute. The address used in the call had been deliberately given to the swatter as misinformation. Finch had no connection to anyone involved.
- 2015-03 · Los Angeles, CaliforniaFamily targeting
LAPD Skid Row officers doxxed within 72 hours of fatal March 2015 shooting, children's school information posted
On March 1, 2015, LAPD officers fatally shot a homeless man on Skid Row in a struggle recorded on video and quickly circulated online. Within 72 hours, at least two officers were doxxed: names, home addresses, and details about their children's schools posted on social media. The LAPD would not confirm whether the doxxed officers were involved in the shooting, and did not publicly name the officers it identified as involved until March 19, 2015, more than two weeks later, while it assessed threats against them.
- 2014-12 · New York, New YorkFamily targeting
NYPD officer Justin D'Amico's home address tweeted by Erica Garner on Christmas Day 2014
On December 25, 2014, Erica Garner shared a tweet that linked to a web page listing the home address of NYPD officer Justin D'Amico, who was involved in her father Eric Garner's 2014 arrest and death, along with addresses for five people identified as possible relatives. Garner and her family's lawyer later said she did not know what the linked page contained. It is an early documented case of social-media-amplified officer doxxing tied to a high-profile police-killing case.
- 2014-08 · Ferguson, MissouriDoxxing
Anonymous's Operation Ferguson: how vigilante doxxing identified the wrong officer
After the August 9, 2014 fatal police shooting of Michael Brown, the hacktivist collective Anonymous launched 'Operation Ferguson' and on August 14 released what it claimed was the name of the officer who shot Brown. The collective identified the wrong person, and an uninvolved man received threats and harassment. Ferguson police released the actual officer's name, Darren Wilson, the following day.
- 2011-06 · Phoenix, ArizonaDoxxing
LulzSec breaches Arizona DPS, dumps 700 documents including officer home addresses
On June 23, 2011, the hacktivist group LulzSec released about 700 confidential files from Arizona Department of Public Safety servers, including intelligence bulletins, phone numbers, and home addresses of officers. A follow-on release on June 29, published under the AntiSec banner by a LulzSec offshoot, added passwords, Social Security numbers, online dating accounts, voicemails, and chat logs for about a dozen officers. The attackers framed the breach as retaliation for Arizona SB 1070.
- 2005-02 · Chicago, IllinoisFamily targeting
Judge Joan Lefkow's husband and mother killed at home: her address had been posted on white-supremacist sites (Chicago, 2005)
On February 28, 2005, US District Judge Joan Lefkow came home to find her husband Michael and her mother Donna shot dead in the basement. The killer was a litigant whose lawsuit Lefkow had dismissed. In the years before the murders, white supremacists had posted her home address and family photos online, and a separate white-supremacist leader had been convicted of soliciting her murder.
- 1999-10 · Nashua, New HampshireStalking
Amy Boyer: a stalker bought her workplace address from a data broker (New Hampshire, 1999)
Amy Boyer, 20, was shot and killed outside her Nashua, New Hampshire workplace by a man who had fixated on her for years. He bought her date of birth, Social Security number, and workplace address from the data broker Docusearch. Docusearch got the workplace address by pretexting: a subcontractor called Boyer at home, lied about who she was, and got Boyer to say where she worked. The case produced a New Hampshire Supreme Court ruling that data brokers owe a duty of reasonable care to the people whose information they sell.
- 1989-07 · Los Angeles, CaliforniaStalking
Rebecca Schaeffer: a stalker bought her home address from a DMV records lookup (Los Angeles, 1989)
Rebecca Schaeffer, a 21-year-old actress, was shot and killed at her front door in 1989 by a fan who had hired a Tucson detective agency to find her home address. The agency pulled the address from California DMV records for $250. The case led to the federal Driver's Privacy Protection Act.