It might include details of purchases that you've made on Amazon, or investments made with an online broker. There’s lots in this type of data that a hacker could use to steal your identity. This includes your name, address, email address, SSN, tax number, date of birth, medical records, educational records, employment. PII - personally identifiable information.Let's have a run through some of the types of information that's there, and why hackers might be interested. You may not have realized quite how much of your personal information is available on the internet. So, keeping things private is already quite a big ask - even before the hackers get involved… What information is available to hackers? Even your IoT devices might be reporting on you. Your entire browsing history is stored by your ISP, tracked by Facebook and perhaps other advertisers. Then, you started banking online and now, your smartphone's connected, you have Facebook… and pretty much your whole life is online.
Back in the 1990s, the only thing you seemingly had to worry about was your email. The world of technology is always evolving and so is our relationship with the internet.
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