A London transgender activist and popular Twitch streamer who was the victim of a swatting incident earlier this month will soon be boarding a plane to leave the country as online trolls continue to threaten her safety.
Clara Sorrenti, who goes by the name Keffals online, shared with her more than 128,000 followers on Twitter earlier this week that the harassment has not stopped, forcing her to flee.
“One of my accounts was hacked and I have been doxxed again. I’m leaving the continent in less than a week,” Sorrenti wrote.
The 28-year-old has been in hiding since the August 5 raid on her home. London police in full tactical gear showed up at her door after threatening emails sent under her name went to city politicians. She was arrested and held at police headquarters for 11 hours. All of her electronic devices were seized.
Nearly a week later, police confirmed Sorrenti had been cleared of any wrongdoing and that she had been the victim of swatting, a criminal harassment tactic where someone attempts to deceive police into responding to a fake emergency.
Sorrenti has been staying in hotels ever since, but online trolls continue to find and dox her. Doxxing is a form of harassment in which someone publishes private or identifying information about a person on the internet, typically with malicious intent.
After the location of where Sorrenti was staying was made public online, pizzas ordered under her dead name (the male name assigned to her at birth) began showing up at the hotel.
She changed hotels, but her location was identified again and even more food was delivered. Sorrenti said her UberEats account was hacked and “hundreds of dollars worth of food” showed up at her door. She reached out to the company in hopes of having her payment information removed and to be reimbursed for the food.
“I don’t want to live like this. I have had to leave my home, and now I am being forced to leave the continent for my own safety,” Sorrenti tweeted. “I want my life back.”
She is now calling for the website that keeps publishing her personal information and address to be shut down.
“The only way I can live a normal life again is if Kiwifarms is deplatformed from the internet. Please help me get my life back,” she wrote.
Police continue to investigate and have been made aware of the two latest doxxing incidents.
Kiwifarms has retaliated. One of my accounts was hacked and I have been doxxed again. I’m leaving the continent in less than a week.https://t.co/QpdQLBMrqo
— keffals (@keffals) August 21, 2022
