1378, Part 2

As the threats increased, so did the flow of information. In a massive team effort, multiple members of 1378 were quickly identified and escalated to authorities, resulting in a cascade of arrests.

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1378, Part 1

The FBI Special Agent in charge of Drake Miller’s case listened closely as I described my interactions with him on social media. The agent even raised the possibility of adding another charge to reflect the threats Miller had sent me. As tempting as it was to pursue justice for myself, I was more focused on securing the arrests of Miller’s friends. The agent sent me his email address and encouraged me to forward every piece of evidence I could gather on each subject.

It was time to get to work.

I knew it would not be simple. Members of 1378 constantly created new accounts and adopted new usernames. They occasionally posed as one another to create confusion and had begun flooding the information space with fictitious doxes of themselves to mislead the people hunting them.

Working with a variety of other hunters, many of whom I had met while crowdsourcing Script’s identity, I began compiling a detailed dossier on 1378 members. I pieced together information from sources like X, Telegram, and Doxbin and sent every breadcrumb to the FBI, including unconfirmed doxes submitted by anti-extortion groups.

The arrests started pouring in.