Has Your Data Been Exposed? 4 Ways Dark Web Monitoring with Dark Web ID Can Protect You

Dark Web ID Protection

Whether you have one home computer that holds all your online banking and financial passwords or an entire database of customer SSNs and credit card numbers, hackers are coming for that information every day.

Once a data breach occurs, one of the first places a hacker will go is the Dark Web marketplace, where they can sell the details they’ve stolen in anonymity, skirting law enforcement. It’s a lucrative living for many hackers.

Prices on the Dark Web for stolen information of all types include:

• $12.99 FOR A SOCIAL MEDIA LOGIN
• $50 TO $100 FOR BANKING DETAILS
• $79 FOR STOLEN PAYMENT CARD NUMBERS
• $999 FOR A COMBO OF PASSPORT, ID CARD, AND DRIVER’S LICENSE

Often personal information or entire company databases that have been breached are for sale on the Dark Web without the victims even knowing about it for months. Once a person is turned down for a loan due to fraudulent activity on their credit report they may find out about the theft, after the damage is already done.

This is particularly costly for companies that have their stored customer or employee data breached. It can result in downtime costs, reparation costs, and data privacy violation penalties. A managed IT plan with security monitoring is one way to prevent a breach from occurring, but if you’ve already been breached, how do you know?

That’s where Dark Web monitoring comes in.

What Does Dark Web Monitoring Do?

The Dark Web is a version of the internet that’s a subsection of the “Deep Web.” This is the part of the internet that search engines don’t index. The Deep Web can include both legitimate and nefarious sites, but the Dark Web is the part that’s notorious for all sorts of illegal activities.

You can’t get to the Dark Web using a normal browser, you have to use a specific type browser and know where you’re going. It’s filled will all types of dangerous websites and is the “Amazon” of illegal trading of stolen data.

If your data has been exposed in a data breach, whether it’s a breach of your own network or one of a company you do business with, it can be for sale in multiple places on the Dark Web without anyone realizing it until months after the breach has occurred.

One example of this is a breach of the logo item website CafePress that many small businesses use for logo items. The company reported a breach to their customers in September of 2019 that had initially occurred in February 2019, so hackers had over 6 months to sell and resell the stolen data of their customers, which included SSNs and Tax ID numbers.

It takes an average of 279 days for a company to identify and contain a data breach.

Here are the ways that signing up for Dark Web monitoring with Dark Web ID can give you a heads up and the chance to do something about stolen data before it negatively impacts you or your business.

Proactively Monitors the Dark Web for Your Data

There are certain marketplaces on the Dark Web that are known for trafficking in stolen credentials, credit card numbers, and other sensitive information. Dark Web ID uses sophisticated intelligence and scanning capabilities to scan and continuously monitor these known marketplaces on the Dark Web proactively for any data that matches your parameters.

Places that are monitored continuously for your data include:

• PRIVATE WEBSITES
• HIDDEN CHAT ROOMS
• PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS
• SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS
• BLACK MARKET SITES
• 640,000+ BOTNETS
• IRC (INTERNET RELAY CHAT) CHANNELS

Helps Stop Breaches from Occurring

The longer your employee or customer databases are out there being sold and resold again and again, the more chance there will be of more security incidents occurring as hackers use those stolen credentials.

If any of your employee emails have been compromised on another site and that cloud provider isn’t aware of the breach, that can mean those credentials may be used to hack your company network.

Dark Web ID provides a real-time alert to companies if employee emails and passwords have been compromised and are being sold on the Dark Web, which gives you the opportunity to secure your network before a breach happens.

Extensive Logging and Reporting

You won’t just get some vague information about your data being for sale. Dark Web ID provides extensive logging and reporting that includes tracking of where data has been found, and recommendations for effective policies that will minimize the risk of a data breach in the future.

This type of service can also boost your compliance with data privacy regulations by giving you an early warning system of any potential problems with data theft that could lead to larger security breaches.

Keeps You Aware of Emerging Security Threats

With the Dark Web ID platform, you’ll have the ability to see industry patterns when it comes to emerging threats before they end up in the news. This allows you to stay a step ahead of the hackers and keep your network and data better protected.

Sign Up for Dark Web ID Today Through Unbound Digital

In today’s cybersecurity climate, the more tools you can have to combat data theft, the better. Dark Web monitoring gives you another layer of security and peace of mind.

Learn more about Dark Web ID and sign up for monitoring today. Call 423-335-2461 or reach out online.