Home / Channel / General Tech / A Bungie executive was ‘swatted’ last night

A Bungie executive was ‘swatted’ last night

An unnamed but confirmed ‘high-up' Bungie executive woke up to a sheriff's police helicopter swarming his home last night after a faked 911 call lead the police to believe that the studio employee had planted explosives in a yard and taken a family hostage, demanding $20,000 for their release.

According to Police Chief, Nathan Elledge, the caller claimed that the man “had an assault rifle” and was demanding a payout for the release of a family he had taken hostage. The 3 AM tactical response lasted for around 45 minutes before law enforcement was able to figure out that the call was a hoax.

download.0.0_cinema_960.0

Detectives figured out that the fake call came from a computer rather than a phone. The police were able to determine that there was no hostage situation taking place at the house but haven't managed to figure out who made the call just yet.

This is just the latest example of prominent gaming industry figures being targeted with hoax 911 calls. Several Twitch streamers have had their homes raided, a YouTuber was swatted while playing Counter Strike not too long ago. Additionally, a plane carrying a Sony Online Entertainment employee had to be grounded after a bomb threat was received.

Discuss on our Facebook page, HERE.

KitGuru Says: At least no property was damaged as the house wasn't raided and nobody was hurt. The police seemed a little more wary of a possible hoax this time around, unlike in other situations which resulted in full on Swat raids. Swatting is a very worrying trend indeed and it needs to be stopped.

Source: Komo News

Become a Patron!

Check Also

CES 2025: Endorfy showcases upgraded peripherals, coolers and more

The KitGuru team has been over in Las Vegas at CES 2025- today they managed to get some time to visit Endorfy at their room and look at new keyboards, headsets, mice and some new air coolers - as well as a prototype case they are releasing later this year.

10 comments

  1. Gary 'Gazza' Keen

    Let retards be retards. If you think you can call a SWAT raid on an innocent person and thats that then you’re gonna face the full force of consequences. Wasting police time – highly trained officers moreover – and money is not something you can just do before walking away without a problem

  2. Gary 'Gazza' Keen

    Let retards be retards. If you think you can call a SWAT raid on an innocent person and thats that then you’re gonna face the full force of consequences. Wasting police time – highly trained officers moreover – and money is not something you can just do before walking away without a problem

  3. :C all them tax dollers wasted. 2k easy for that force mount maybe more cuz of the chopper

  4. The sad thing is that it’s completely untraceable. The caller probably used a remote computer that had additional access to a random VPN in some foreign country. So depressingly they can’t do anything about it besides saying “we are currently investigating the situation” 🙁

  5. Well this is excellent example why the US police absolutely needs further militarization. Having in mind that civilian population is seen as the enemy, obviously solution are the LRRPs. Send them deputies to RECONDO school, ASAP.

  6. Well this is excellent example why the US police absolutely needs further militarization. Having in mind that civilian population is seen as the enemy, obviously solution are the LRRPs. Send them deputies to RECONDO school, ASAP.

  7. I hope the bastard who did this actually gets caught up in a situation where he really is a hostage and the police dont believe him because it looks like another hoax. Then save him after taking some time, enough time for him to reflect on what he has done and maybe realize that hes an immature idiot.

  8. I hope the bastard who did this actually gets caught up in a situation where he really is a hostage and the police dont believe him because it looks like another hoax. Then save him after taking some time, enough time for him to reflect on what he has done and maybe realize that hes an immature idiot.

  9. As I’ve stated before; If the call is untraceable, they shouldn’t act on it. Secondly, if the call is fake, the caller should be punished accordingly and on top of that, have to pay for every penny used during the raid.

  10. As I’ve stated before; If the call is untraceable, they shouldn’t act on it. Secondly, if the call is fake, the caller should be punished accordingly and on top of that, have to pay for every penny used during the raid.

We've noticed that you are using an ad blocker.

Thank you for visiting KitGuru. Our news and reviews teams work hard to bring you the latest stories and finest, in-depth analysis.

We want to be as informative as possible – and to help our readers make the best buying decisions. The mechanism we use to run our business and pay some of the best journalists in the world, is advertising.

If you want to support KitGuru, then please add www.kitguru.net to your ad blocking whitelist or disable your adblocking software. It really makes a difference and allows us to continue creating the kind of content you really want to read.

It is important you know that we don’t run pop ups, pop unders, audio ads, code tracking ads or anything else that would interfere with the KitGuru experience. Adblockers can actually block some of our free content, such as galleries!