Protect Yourself From Doxxing

Doxxing (also spelled 'doxing') is the act of researching and publicly publishing someone's private information—like their home address, phone number, employer, or family members—without their consent. The intent is usually to intimidate, harass, or enable others to cause real-world harm.

The most common doxxing targets are your home address, phone number, full legal name, workplace, family members' names and addresses, social media accounts linked to your real identity, and email addresses. Most of this information is found on data broker and people-search sites—not through hacking.

You can dramatically reduce your risk. The single most effective thing you can do is remove your personal information from data broker sites—the #1 source doxxers use. While it's impossible to guarantee 100% protection, removing yourself from 500+ sites makes you far harder to dox than the average person.

GhostVault can still help. Removing your information from data broker sites prevents the doxxed information from spreading further and makes it harder for bad actors to find updated or additional details. Document the doxxing, report it to local authorities, and contact the platforms where it was posted for removal.

A VPN hides your browsing activity from your internet provider and masks your IP address online. It does nothing about your personal info on data broker sites, which is compiled from public records—not your browsing. GhostVault tackles the data broker problem; they serve different purposes.