Data brokers

Commercial data brokers collect large quantities of information from mobile apps, browsers and other sources and sell that data to advertisers. Federal and local age...

Fox News tech columnist Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson warns that many adults—especially older people—have personal details exposed on people-search and data-broker sites ...

The article explains that data brokers compile personal information from public records (property deeds, voter rolls, court filings, licenses) and commercial sources...

The article explains how scammers use publicly filed death certificates, obituary scrapers, county property records, probate filings, the Social Security Death Maste...

The article reports a surge in AI-enabled voice-cloning scams in which criminals use as little as three seconds of publicly available audio to imitate a loved one an...

The Fox News article reports that burglary crews linked to break-ins at homes belonging to NFL players Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce used publicly available sched...

The article explains why scammers concentrate attacks on retirees during the roughly six-week period from Memorial Day weekend through the Fourth of July. Scammers e...

Scammers are increasingly targeting U.S. veterans by harvesting military service records (including DD-214 forms), VA enrollment information, and other public record...

Fox News technology column (CyberGuy) warns that information given on sweepstakes entry forms — from basic contact details to optional fields like income, health int...

Investigators and consumer-protection groups have warned of a pattern where recipients receive unexpected white envelopes or cheap packages containing nothing or sma...

Report explains how scammers use people-search and data-broker sites to assemble detailed profiles on individuals without their consent. A scammer can start by searc...