From credit card details to your email address and date of birth, there’s plenty of personal information that could be used to scam you, if it falls into the wrong hands.
What will happen to you if and when your personal information falls into the hands of cybercriminals is difficult to predict and impossible to generalise about.Karl Hilzinger
Also, says Klein, it’s generally much less work to extort one large sum of money out of the company that leaked the data than it is to steal many smaller sums of money from the individuals whose data was leaked. Driver’s licences, passports, bank accounts, tax records, legal documents, you name it, pretty well everything uses your DOB as part of the matrix of data points it uses to create your unique identity.a DOB may not get an identity criminal very far, but without it they probably won’t get anywhere at all.
But there’s a real danger attached to having your phone number leaked, too, especially for people who use their phone for two-factor authentication.is where your bank account or your email account or whatever it is you want to keep secured sends you a text message with freshly generated PIN, every time you go to log in or go to make some change or a payment that requires reauthentication.
But email addresses pose another threat, too. According to Klein, they’re one of the prime ways sophisticated attackers have of choosing whom to invest their time in, out of the many possible targets whose data is on the dark web.If, say, your email address were jane@reallylargenuclearpowerplant.gov.au, that might attract the attention of nation-state hackers who have been itching to hack into the power grid and cause chaos.
This very much depends on your circumstances, but for people who have fled domestic violence, or for people in law enforcement or who deal with criminals, having a home address revealed is a major problem.Having your passport or driver’s licence number leaked may not always be as damaging as it may sound, especially if no other information from the document was revealed, such as its expiry date and its date and place of issue.
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