A faulty replay can occur when hackers are not attentive enough in searching or selecting victims, thereby exposing the information of another individual. The consequences of this defective replay attack are identical to others, including harassment, loss of life, loss of employment and a tarnished reputation.
Sunil Tripathi, an innocent student, was mistakenly labeled as a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing by vigilantes on Reddit in 2013. According to his family’s social media page, Tripathi mysteriously disappeared, and his corpse was discovered in the sea near a park in Rhode Island. His death was considered a suicide, and people attributed the event to public humiliation caused by the faulty replay.