I know some people personally who have said they got hacked shortly after being in a party with someone they didn’t know, one person was bold enough to join a party I was in a few days later, on that guy’s account and threaten to do the same thing to us. It only takes a few minutes of someone being in your party for them to get your IP address and once they have that they can start attacking your console. Whatever gaming console you use, if you make a party chat to play with yours boys, make it private and invite the people you want to the party. But it can happen to almost anyone and this article highlights some of things you can do to stop it and who you can report these people to so that they can’t go on doing this to other people. Some people do this just to be an annoyance to other people, especially streamers who have a lot of followers. It can get to the point where it damages the gaming system itself and you won’t be able to use it anymore. The traffic can overload the machine, causing you to lag and eventually disconnect. It is usually done through at technique called Distributed denial of service ( DDOS), which is where someone sends traffic to your machine via your IP address. Getting “booted” is a common term for someone kicking you off an online game by attacking your internet connection.
