Do you know what doxxing is?
After Twitter's new owner and CEO, Elon Musk, accused numerous journalists of violating the company's new "doxxing" policy by sharing data showing his real-time location, the meaning of "dox" became the subject of online speculation in late 2022. chatter.
According to Merriam-Webster, "dox" or "doxx" means "to publicly identify or publish personal information about someone especially as punishment or revenge." Sensitive personal information shared may include home addresses, social security numbers, telephone numbers, email addresses, bank account information, etc.
Doxxing attacks range from relatively harmless ones, such as fake email subscriptions or pizza deliveries, to much more dangerous ones, such as stalking a person's family or employer, physical stalking, hitting, identity theft, and other forms of cyberbullying.
Author Elina Linderman
