Anecdotal, but a few years ago I had an acquaintance doxxed and written about by Krebs for no particular reason. He contacted Krebs over IM to supply some deta

Anecdotal, but a few years ago I had an acquaintance doxxed and written about by Krebs for no particular reason. He contacted Krebs over IM to supply some details about an upcoming article, if I recall something about a DDoS ring. At some point, their conversation deteriorated and, to my recollection, he started trolling Krebs a bit. Come a few days later, Krebs dropped a new blog on his site about a DDoS ring. The article starts fine, but in the middle of it, it brings up my acquaintance. For no reason. It has his full dox, and even has a picture of him along with some screenshots of their IM session. Now, it wasn’t explicitly stated that he was connected to the DDoS ring, but Krebs placed him in the article anyway, leading readers to understand that he was implicated — falsely of course. Was trolling Krebs in bad taste? Probably. Worthy of being lumped in with a bunch of DDoS skids, doxxed, and more? Doubtful.