Social media accounts for terrorists? I have the news in this short podcast.
Bad news: Here's how much your social media logins cost on the Dark Web
What if I told you for just $12, someone could buy your Instagram login. They could read all your messages, look through everything you’ve “liked” and even post as you.
Whizcase gathered prices from Dark Web marketplaces to see how much your online identity is worth, and it’s grim.
- LinkedIn: $45
- Facebook: $14
- Instagram: $12
- Discord: $12
- Snapchat: $11
- X (Twitter): $10
- Pinterest: $9
- TikTok: $8
- Reddit: $6
It makes sense that LinkedIn is at the top of the list. After all, someone could do a lot of damage — or trick a lot of people — with access to your professional network.
The big takeaway here: Your online identity is always under attack, and it’s cheaper and easier than ever to hack. Now is the time to check your passwords (unique for every site, please!) and turn on two-factor authentication everywhere you can. That way you get an alert if your account is accessed from a new device.
There’s another step you should take now while you’re thinking about just how much of your info is floating around the web.
Wipe your data from people search sites
Also called data brokers, these companies make their money by collecting everything they can about you and selling it to whoever is willing to buy. That’s advertisers in many cases, but it might also be hackers.
I’ve gone through the (often confusing and annoying) steps of removing my info from so many of these sites over the years, but it’s never-ending. There’s always a new one.
That’s why I want to tell you about Incogni. They do the hard work for you. Incogni is a personal data-removal service that scrubs your info from the web. It handles the hard work for you. Seriously, it’d take hundreds of hours to do it all on your own!
I signed up, and in about 3 minutes, I was already opted out of 27 databases, with 47 more requests sent. No, it doesn’t all happen instantly, but that’s because they go through the process you’d normally have to do on your own.
Now I let Incogni take care of wiping my data from the web — and I negotiated a special deal for you to try it out, too.
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