Dangers of the Dark Web
One of the dangers of the Dark Web is having our information uploaded and displayed there. This has happened to Facebook, British Airways, the Marriott hotel chain, and many more. I will talk about one or two in this chapter.
For example, a top investment firm was discovered to save their client's information on unsecure servers. The information included Personally Identifiable Information (PII), such as their social security information and bank account numbers. This information was published on the Dark Web, putting the clients (and the investment firm) at risk
A Middle Eastern website was found to have inadvertently leaked administrative level credentials and credentials for remote terminals in several countries, ...
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