Quote:Searching for and publishing personally identifiable information of a person publicly with malicious intent is called doxxing. The word is derived from “dropping docs”, a revenge tactic that was used by hackers to drop malicious information on someone, usually a rival.

Fast-forward to today, doxxing is a tactic employed by cyberbullies that entails leaking private information about an individual to the public. You don’t have to be known and popular – anybody can fall a victim to this form of online harassment, if and when they get on a bad guy’s radar.