[Sayrus]

I perfectly remember them also being embedded in DDOS as a Service offers. It's surprising seeing many persons saying an IP is not PII/private. While it may not allow you to "hack" a person, you can very certainly saturate his uplink. I also remember streamers being resolved and targeted repeatedly.

[sbdaman]

Yeah. If you were decently high ranked in any popular video game at the time, you had to make sure you didn't share a username between Skype/the game, or you'd be DDOSed endlessly.