Is Your Data up for Sale on Dark Web?
January 4, 2017
A new service has been launched in UK that enables users to find out if their confidential information is up for sale over the Dark Web.
As reported by Hacked in an article This Tool Lets You Scan the Dark Web for Your (Stolen) Personal Data, it says:
The service is called OwlDetect and is available for £3,5 a month. It allows users to scan the dark web in search for their own leaked information. This includes email addresses, credit card information and bank details.
The service uses a supposedly sophisticated algorithm that has alleged capabilities to penetrate up to 95% of content on the Dark Web. The inability of Open Web search engines to index and penetrate Dark Web has led to mushrooming of Dark Web search engines.
OwlDetect works very similar to early stage Google, as it becomes apparent here in the article:
This new service has a database of stolen data. This database was created over the past 10 years, presumably with the help of their software and team. A real deep web search engine does exist, however.
This means the search is not real time and is as good as searching your local hard drive. Most of the data might be outdated and companies that owned this data might have migrated to secure platforms. Moreover, the user might also have deleted the old data. Thus, the service just tells you that were you ever hacked or was your data was even stolen?
Vishal Ingole, January 4, 2017
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