You're more popular than you realize, but that isn’t as good as it sounds. Some of your biggest fans are data brokers. Data broker companies find your personal information and sell it to eager buyers, ...

Our data is for sale — everything from our Social Security numbers to our browsing histories. Data brokers sell our personal details to other companies for marketing, credit reporting, debt collection ...

In 2024, there were 2.6 million reports of fraud and 1.1 million cases of identity theft, according to the Federal Trade Commission, resulting in losses of over $12.5 billion. One way cybercriminals ...