Doxing: Meaning and Definition

Doxing is the malicious publication of an individual's private personal information — home address, phone number, workplace, family details, or financial data — without consent, typically to enable harassment, intimidation, swatting, or identity fraud. Doxing campaigns spread quickly across social platforms and paste sites. Mitigation involves monitoring breach databases and public paste-sites for PII exposure, suppressing leaked information from search results, and rapidly engaging platforms to remove harassing content while law-enforcement liaisons handle physical-safety threats.