Investigators were after a man who had enticed a 12-year-old girl into sexually-charged conversations and video calls on the ...

An appeals court in Canada acquitted Brandon Klayme of child pornography-related charges. His Kik username had one less ...

Police accidentally submitted the wrong username to Kik, which returned data for an innocent man whose IP address led ...

A trial and conviction that’d give Franz Kafka nightmares.

Canadian Brandon Klayme, 30, won an appeal of his 2023 child-luring and pornography convictions after a wrong username linked ...

We’ve all mistyped someone’s username before, whether it’s on social media, gaming networks, or other platforms.

A Nova Scotia man who spent 18 months in jail for allegedly “grooming” and sending sexually explicit material to a 12-year-old girl has had his conviction overturned. This after it was revealed that a ...

One missing underscore in a Skyrim-themed username put an innocent Nova Scotia man in prison for 18 months. A 2018 ...

A clerical error confused one Skyrim-themed username for another, and ultimately put a man in prison for over a year on child sex abuse charges.

An innocent man spent 18 months behind bars after police missed an underscore in a Skyrim username and identified the wrong ...

"He should never have been charged, let alone convicted." ...

For years, no one noticed a discrepancy in two usernames that referenced Bethesda's popular Elder Scrolls RPG ...