There is a good chance that within just a few minutes with a Google search you were able to locate personal identifying information (PII) of your executives and likely yourself, whether it was physical addresses, children’s names, parent’s names, email addresses, or phone numbers. This information is often housed online, by legal data brokers, who buy and sell your information.
And while privacy concerns are issues when it comes to legal data brokers, the risks for your organization increase when bad actors find and traffic in PII data, too. Using this information, they can target your executives, VIPs, or even family members with cyberattacks, impersonations, and phishing campaigns in order to gain access to your business. This leaves a major gap that threat actors can exploit to target your business from the outside. ...read more!
