The campaign warned volunteers not to retaliate by doxxing opponents.
The group was doxxing critics by posting their phone numbers.
The forum removed the post because it contained doxxing.
Platform moderators suspended accounts that were doxxing users.
Victims of doxxing may face unwanted calls, stalking, or physical danger.
Similar words
data leak
dox
unmasking
doxx
leak
outing
unmask
out
privacy breach
doxing
Meanings
Revealing private information online
noun
technology
informal
The act of finding or publishing someone's private or identifying information online without consent, usually to expose, shame, threaten, or harass them.
Examples
The forum removed the post because it contained doxxing.
Journalists covering extremist groups often prepare for threats and doxxing.
The school treated the spreadsheet of students' addresses as doxxing.
Her real name and workplace were shared in a wave of doxxing.
The policy bans harassment, threats, and doxxing.
Victims of doxxing may face unwanted calls, stalking, or physical danger.
Similar words
doxing
outing
unmasking
exposure
data leak
privacy breach
Exposing someone's private details
verb
technology
informal
Present-participle use of dox or doxx, meaning to identify someone or publish their private details online without consent.
Examples
The group was doxxing critics by posting their phone numbers.
Platform moderators suspended accounts that were doxxing users.
She accused the channel of doxxing a witness in the case.
The campaign warned volunteers not to retaliate by doxxing opponents.
Police investigated whether the suspect had been doxxing local officials.
Posting a home address to scare someone is doxxing them, even if the address appears in a public record.
Similar words
dox
doxx
expose
unmask
out
leak
Etymology
From hacker and internet slang dox or docs, short for documents, in phrases such as dropping docs for revealing someone's identifying information.
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