PhantomL0rd talks about his ordeal.
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Game streamer shares his ordeal of hacker attacks and a terrifying police raid

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 4 min

A gamer who goes by the handle PhantomL0rd explained his full ordeal of the last 24 hours (as of publication time) as hackers attacked his livestream on Twitch and police raided his home in response to an apparent prank call.

James “PhantomL0rd” Varga said in his video explanation that he hadn’t slept in 24 hours. For some reason, PhantomL0rd became the target of a hacker or hacker group that went by the name DERP. They targeted him, apparently for “lulz,” or laughs, inside his games and then made prank calls to the police, sending them out multiple times to his home. Now PhantomL0rd has made a lengthy video recording explaining what happened.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.