More than 3 billion identity records were found spread across visible and underground online sources during 2017, according to new research that lends further weight to suspicions that protection of personally identifiable information (PII) is proving tremendously ineffective in the face of thriving demand from online cybercriminals.
The records – which were located by security firm 4iQ during a search by automated crawlers across openly available online web, social-media, underground, black markets and dark-web destinations – were plucked from more than 8.7 billion raw data records and represent a more than 64 percent increase compared with the same exercise in 2016.
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