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It could be an insider, but it's also not hard to find that sort of information about a public figure.
The figures themselves? Yes. Their wives and families though? I would think that would be a bit harder.
That, and this all happened over the course of, what, a day? An awful lot of people were specifically targetted and threatened in a very short period of time. We're talking hours here. Maybe a single day. I have a lot of trouble believing attacks that were this numerous and this targeted over such a short period of time was the work of internet randos.
If we were talking about a period of several weeks or even days, sure. But when that many people receive that many death threats over such a short period of time, that's not (to me) the work of random people. It's a coordinated attack from someone who had the information of multiple families already on hand.
You’re naive or uninformed then.
In two minutes from my phone I found his phone number and personal email, two personal phone numbers for his wife, one is a landline, her personal email address along with the names and contact information for their kids. Their current and prior addresses. All of their ages, birthdays, aliases and neighbors. If someone was persistent and felt like spending an hour to put together profiles for them I have no doubt they could plant a very clear picture of everything they would want for whatever they are after. I was going to post links and screenshots but I don’t think that would be appropriate and as much as I don’t like him I don’t agree with the actions. You can accomplish a lot with OSINT profiling, be it people, organizations, whatever really. Nobody that has any idea what they are doing isn’t going to do recon ahead of time. Obviously using more secure methods than a simple fingerprinted google search but I was just doing it to verify I could and without any malicious intent I would need to cover my tracks for.
No, it really is way easier than you think. A day is more than enough time, especially if it's done by a group of people connected on Discord or something, which it almost certainly was.