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Inside the Dark World of Doxing for Profit


From tricking companies into handing over victims’ personal data to offering violence as a service, the online doxing ecosystem is not just still a problem—it’s getting more extreme.

Doxing can “humiliate, harm, and reduce the informational autonomy” of targeted individuals, says Bree Anderson, a digital criminologist at Deakin University in Australia who has researched the subject with colleagues. “I’ve seen people get doxed and that ends up in them being bricked, getting their house shot up, getting a Molotov thrown through their windows, gang stalked, all in an attempt to extort them for money,” Ego said in a conversation with Larsen. Around 160 requests from lawyers and local and national law enforcement bodies are listed from 27 countries, Larsen says, with the majority being denied as they don’t break Doxbin’s limited terms of service.

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