In the digital age, every work is being done online. In such a situation, your data is sought for registration on many platforms. Which includes your name, phone number, address, location, and user ID. You must have heard about the data leaks for some time. Register your data on many websites gets leaked Recently people's data has been leaked from online shopping sites Big Basket. Data leak has been a common term for some time. Data leaks are also quite dangerous in the real sense and its effect is not seen by a common user so soon. But it has long term effects.
What is the loss to users due to data leak?
The loss of data leaks is not visible to the users immediately but in the long term, it can cause you harm. The hacker has your name, location, address, phone number and on this basis, many things are possible for hackers. By collecting all this information, they can harm you in many ways. There may be some kind of bank fraud with you. You can harm your house by reaching. You can make a dent in the social media account or you can peep into your personal life, take ransom.
How are data leaks?
Data leaks can occur in many ways. Many times companies are reluctant to store user data and due to this, the data is leaked. Many times hackers deliberately cyber attack companies' servers and acquire user data. Cybercriminal data leaks either take physical access to the computer network or remote access is taken. First of all, the hackers research the company's servers and try to reach them through a contact. Talking about network attacks, hackers find the flaws of the data server of that company and after that use the employees as a bet and get the data. It is important to note that there is no rule of hacking and cybercriminals take cyber attacks every time by resorting to different methods. After leaking data, either hackers make money by selling them on the dark web, or they use that data to harm users.
What is the dark web?
In simple language, the dark web is like the Internet, but there is no indexing here. That is, you cannot search the content of the dark web by going on the internet like this. Anonymizing browser users of dark web access is used. Among these is the popular torr which can be accessed using it. Dark web website is also called tor dead service. In the dark web, the name of the website does not appear at the end of .com or .org, but instead a name like .onion is used. They do not appear in Google search.
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