xQc cuts off Twitch stream after doxxing himself again by accident Twitch\/xQcTwitch star Felix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel was forced to end his June 13 stream earlier than planned after he accidentally doxxed himself and gave away his IP address. Over the last few years, as he\u2019s grown into Twitch\u2019s biggest streamer, xQc has had to deal with plenty of security issues \u2013 both online and offline, as he\u2019s dealt with fans invading his personal space. In terms of dealing with online attacks, he\u2019s no stranger to being bombarded by stream snipers who want to ruin his games, but he\u2019s also had to deal with viewers getting a hold of his IP address. The latter has happened on a few occasions, and has prevented him from streaming at times as his internet service has been bombarded by DDoS attacks. While some tech-savvy viewers have jumped through serious hoops to get his IP address in the past, he\u2019s also given it away by mistake too. Lengyel had another tech slip-up during his June 13 stream where, once again, he showed off his IP address to around 100,000 viewers, prompting him to go offline before he\u2019d planned to. This time around, xQc was trying to access a gambling website to play some slots, but was met by a connection issue that prevented him from doing so. As the classic \u2018Error 502: Bad gateway\u2019 message appeared on-screen, so did his IP address, and Lengyel shut down his stream as a result. \u201cStream offline for the day, leaked IP address by accident, you know the rest of the story,\u201d xQc tweeted after going offline. \u201cGotta restart stuff and do a couple of homework anyways. I\u2019ll be up and live early tomorrow. Thanks for hanging out.\u201d STREAM OFFLINE FOR THE DAY LEAKED IP BY ACCIDENT, YOU KNOW THE REST OF THE STORY. GOTTA RESTART STUFF AND DO A COUPLE HOMEWORKS ANYWAYS. I’LL BE UP AND LIVE EARLY TOMORROW. THANKS FOR HANGING OUT \u2014 xQc (@xQc) June 14, 2022 As noted, xQc has run into this issue a few times before, and while it can usually be resolved pretty quickly, it\u2019s better to be safe than sorry given that someone can find your real-life address from your IP. He\u2019s confident that he\u2019ll have things sorted and be back streaming within a day, and hopefully he takes some extra precautions this time around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
xQc cuts off Twitch stream after doxxing himself again by accident Twitch\/xQcTwitch star Felix \u2018xQc\u2019 Lengyel was forced to end his June 13 stream earlier than planned after he accidentally doxxed himself and gave away his IP address. Over the last few years, as he\u2019s grown into Twitch\u2019s biggest streamer, xQc has had to deal […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}