Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Name, address and phone number. Social Security number. Emails, usernames and passwords. Medical records and account numbers. Financial account numbers and details. Driver's license and passport ...
Once you know that your Social Security number is available on a public forum like the dark web, it may only be a matter of time before someone tries to use that information against you.
In 2015, Jay Jacobs, an analyst working on data breach reporting for Verizon, estimated that as many as 60% to 80% of all Social Security numbers in the U.S. had been compromised.
Fake news websites are those which intentionally, but not necessarily solely, publish hoaxes and disinformation for purposes other than news satire. Some of these sites use homograph spoofing attacks, typosquatting and other deceptive strategies similar to those used in phishing attacks to resemble genuine news outlets. [1] [2] [3]
Doxbin was an onion service in the form of a pastebin used to post or leak (often referred to as doxing) personal data of any person of interest.. Due to the illegal nature of much of the information it published (such as social security numbers, bank routing information, and credit card information, all in plain text), it was one of many sites seized during Operation Onymous, a multinational ...
WikiLeaks has, for instance, revealed Social Security numbers, medical information, credit card numbers and details of suicide attempts. [ 41 ] [ 42 ] [ 43 ] News organisations, activists, journalists and former members have also criticised WikiLeaks over allegations of anti-Clinton and pro-Trump bias and a lack of internal transparency.
More Americans are receiving alerts notifying them that their Social Security number or other login information was detected on the dark web, a section of the internet hidden to most mainstream web...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.