[Klonoar]

Pardon my ignorance but I'm unable to find much about this story... and the links you posted are hard to piece together with this narrative.

Not even doubting it, just wondering if there's more of a source that's laid out (work/timeline/etc)? It's supremely interesting and should probably be more well known if it's not already.

[baybal2]

Most of what I know was found by people on Doubi's forum which now went down. Near nothing about that in English besides stating the fact that he is gone now, that he got a term, and that his Twitter was the most likely source of his ID leak as deduced from public records about his case.

Early accounts explored the possibility of Chinese police exploiting SMS gateway, and password reset abuse, but it has since been confirmed that even users who lived for years in the West got deanonymised, and their relatives got harassed. MSS/police having fresh twitter user DB is the most probable explanation at this point.