The latest doxxing attempt fits into a pattern of threats against people who speak out against former President Donald Trump.
The addresses and phone numbers of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen’s family members were posted to a doxxing website after presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felony counts in connection with a scheme to illegally influence the 2016 election.
Cohen, Trump’s former “fixer,” played a key role in the plot to keep adult film actor Stormy Daniels quiet during the 2016 election and testified against Trump at trial. According to Cohen, Trump said the revelation of Daniels’ story of an affair would be a “total disaster” and “catastrophic” for his 2016 campaign.
Trump, who has denied an affair, was convicted of falsifying business records related to Cohen’s hush money payment to keep Daniels from telling her story. “What I was doing was at the direction of and for the benefit of Mr. Trump,” Cohen, who served time in prison, said at trial.
There are doxxing websites? Like purpose-made? Isn’t that illegal? Article doesn’t mention the name, but says it has been used before. Wouldn’t it just get deleted after the first time?
illegal where? do you think a website hosted in Russia or Pakistan is going to care about an american family whose details get listed there?
It’s mind-blowing to me seeing Americans all surprised that their laws don’t magically extend to every corner of the world through the internet. Crazy mfs lmao
What? No, young people that never saw a phone book are the likely cause here. It’s not illegal to post publicly available details.
Tons of doxxing is nothing more than searching publicly available information. People who already know all the sources can do it easily. These websites would only make it accessible in one place.
Try doxxing yourself sometime. It’s scary.
Then pay a service to de-dox yourself across all those web sites. It feels a bit like a mafia squeeze, but it works.
Do you have a good one you can recommend?
I love it when capitalism invents a problem and then sells me the solution.
Google will keep you out of search results at least.