According to BuzzFeed, the cyber attacks on Lynch very quickly took a turn for the nasty, as netizens scoured the web for more information about the young woman.
Identifying information about Lynch was circulated, as well as nude videos and pictures that she had allegedly appeared in.
Lynch, whose Twitter account has since been suspended, says her family has been subjected to death threats in recent days.
“Plz stop with the death threats towards my parents. They did nothing wrong. I was the one in the wrong and I am paying for being insensitive,” she tweeted Friday.
She later wrote that she had lost her job over the costume fiasco.
Some very upset Tweets!
@SomeSKANKinMI You should be ashamed, my mother lost both her legs and I almost died in the marathon. You need a filter.
— Sydney Corcoran (@Sydney23Lynne) November 2, 2013
@mzbilly @mmurphycit @SomeSKANKinMI Wow. If she has kids, would she put them in bloodied Sandy Hook shirts?
— LisainDallas (@LisainDallas) October 31, 2013
@rennoceralc @SomeSKANKinMI repulsive. As someone who experienced it first hand, I cant see how a mentally stable person can think that's ok
— Molly Walsh (@MollyWalsh) October 31, 2013
@SomeSKANKinMI People at the Boston Marathon died in terror and agony… and you looked at the images and thought "lol funny costume idea"?
— Rebecca Brown (@Chinchillazllla) November 2, 2013
h/t – huffingtonpost
