A Canadian man named Brandon Klayme was wrongfully imprisoned for 18 months after authorities mixed up his Kik username with ...

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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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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.