UK: Mumsnet founder ‘swatted by misogynist griefers’
John Leyden reports:
Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts and another user were both targeted in swatting attacks at the apex of a series of hack attacks that may have led to the compromise of user logins at the high-profile, UK-based parenting site.
[…]Roberts fell victim to just such an attack in the middle of the night last week as part of an escalating series of varied assaults that began around a week ago, initially with DDoS attacks against the Mumsnet parenting site.
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