{"id":17104,"date":"2021-05-24T23:06:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T23:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/twitch-rivals-mkx-tournament-suspended-over-doxxing-attack"},"modified":"2024-07-19T17:26:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T17:26:17","slug":"twitch-rivals-mkx-tournament-suspended-over-doxxing-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginx.tv\/en\/mortal-kombat\/twitch-rivals-mkx-tournament-suspended-over-doxxing-attack","title":{"rendered":"Twitch Rivals MKX tournament suspended over doxxing attack"},"content":{"rendered":"

What was supposed to be a celebration of Mortal Kombat X, the franchise’s most revered entry, ended up being spoiled by users doxxing players during the Twitch Rivals Max Presents MKX Lives<\/a> event, with the platform cutting the tournament short as a result.<\/p>\n

As the tournament approached its conclusion, with only the Top 8 to be played, competitors started reporting that they were being victims of DDoSing and doxxing attacks, with fighting games icon Dominique “SonicFox” McLean<\/a> being amongst the first to raise awareness.<\/p>\n

MKX tournament suspended over DDoSing and Doxxing<\/h2>\n

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For those unaware, DDoSing or Distributed Denial of Service is a form of cyber-attack which targets networks to prevent users from accessing or connecting to them, disrupting services that facilitate the process.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, doxxing is simply the act of publicly releasing personal information without consent.<\/p>\n

The information in question was being shared in multiple Twitch chats, with users reporting the accounts signal-boosting it. Curtis “Rewind” McCall, one of the players that made it to Top and who was victim of doxxing, stated on social media<\/a> that he “was done with the tournament.”<\/p>\n