[4] On August 16, 2021, McGibney earned Harvard University's Cybersecurity Certification: Managing Risk in the Information Age.
[8] McGibney was involved with the first deployment of Cisco UCS blade technology in 2009, while employed as data center lead at general contractor Tutor Perini.
[9][10] In February 2011, McGibney announced the website Cheaterville.com, where anonymous users could post claims of infidelity, alongside names and pictures of those accused.
[24] In April 2022, a short VICE documentary featuring McGibney detailing his involvement in the events which led up to the 2012 shutdown of revenge porn website Is Anyone Up?
On July 27, 2022, Netflix released a three-part documentary entitled "The Most Hated Man on the Internet" which featured McGibney describing how he acquired and shut down Is Anyone Up?
[26] In December 2015, McGibney was ordered to pay a $1 million Anti-SLAPP court sanction and $300,000 in attorney's fees to Neal Rauhauser for filing a series of baseless lawsuits against him.
[27] McGibney appealed and on April 19, 2018, a three judge panel in the Texas 2nd District Court of Appeals ruled in favor of McGibney, vacating the monetary and non-monetary sanctions findings, and reversing and remanding the amount of attorney's fees awarded in ruling that the trial court had abused its discretion.