xQc ends stream after accidentally leaking his IP address
In a recent turn of events, Felix “xQc” ended up canceling his stream yesterday, since he accidentally leaked his own IP. It happened completely by accident, thanks to losing his connection to Stake, the website the Juicer gambles on. Though he did stream for a while after that, his connection dropped abruptly, and the streamer posted a tweet about the situation.
About five hours into a gambling stream, xQc ended up shutting down the stream earlier than planned. The streamer was gambling on stream, but during one of his pulls, he lost connection to the game. This resulted in him going to pick a new slot while talking to his viewers.
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After picking a new game, the streamer faced a connection issue that caused a disconnection screen to pop up, which also gave away his IP address to his whole chat only for a short time. He continued to play for another few minutes before the stream went dark.
While streaming, he claimed it was a DDoS attack, though it was more likely that the Stake website simply had an issue that resulted in a lost connection. It is possible that the streamer faced a DDoS attack, but either way, he decided to stop the stream for the day. In his tweet, he said:
One follower of the Juicer suggested him to use a VPN to hide his IP at all times, but one reply thought that it would not have helped in this case. In this particular instance, xQc had a screen up on his PC that showed his current IP, so it’s unlikely that a VPN would have helped in this situation.
A response did come through that said a VPN would change the public IP, and so the browser would display a different IP, preventing the leak. The downside is that his latency and internet speed will be affected.
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