What is Doxing and How to Keep it from Dooming You Online
Doxing is one of the newest terms on the Internet when it comes to social media and personal data. You might not know what it is, but that does not make any less of a threat or a problem as the spread of unwanted data breaches continues to ramp up. Doxing is the process where a user’s private information is collected and then spread across multiple platforms, including social media, and published publicly. There are plenty of legitimate reasons for your private information to be collected: insurance companies do it to assess risk and credit score companies do it for banks and for individuals looking to assess their scores. It can also be part of research experiments if you give them the right to do so. Unfortunately, it can be done for the wrong reasons as well, usually, the result of hacking with the intent to hold someone’s information for ransom, shame them, or just as a vicious act of cybercrime.