Security News > 2020 > December > How to protect your personal data from being sold on the Dark Web
Once your personal data is up for sale, buyers can use it for financial gain or for doxing, a practice where malicious actors publicly reveal private information about you for all to see.
In a blog post published Tuesday, security provider Kaspersky looks at the sale of personal data on the Dark Web and offers advice on how to protect your own data.
Personal data that finds its way to the Dark Web can be sold at relatively low prices, certainly for less than the average person would think.
Driver's license scans: $5 to $25. Driver's licenses are also used as a means of identification with scans of a license and all the visible information up for grabs on the Dark Web.
The type of data sold on the Dark Web varies from medical forms with full names, email addresses, and insurance numbers to full records with a patient's entire medical history, prescriptions, and other data.