Privacy issues always seem to focus on someone far away, like politicians and celebrities, but cyber criminals and malicious hackers also targeted regular people frequently than you ever thought. You must not forget about the final target of cyber criminals—your private information and financial data. The most common ways for you to become vulnerable to these issues usually happen when you shop online, check email and access social media network. Here, you are going to get closer to the facts and methods of top online privacy issues in 2017.


Phishing Scam

Phishing scam is still the most common privacy threats out there, which is based on communication made via email or on social networks. Cyber criminals will send you emails or messages and try to trick you into giving them your login credentials – from your bank account, social network, work account, cloud storage or any other personal data that are valuable for them.

There are a lot of types of phishing scams: phishing email scams, greeting card scams, lottery scams, romance scams, make money faster scams, Facebook impersonation scam, etc. Actually, as long as you do not click the suspicious websites and links in the emails, stay calm when such thing as a free lunch happens, you can protect yourself from these threats.


Data Breaches

For most users, major data leaks and breaches are of little concern. If you feel safe and embrace the idea that they could not possibly target me out of all those celebrities, you might have potential risks in privacy issues.

You should know that facts that all of your information gets a price. Let’s see how much some data costs on the dark web: complete credit card record on the dark web costs around 30$ dollars; entire electronic healthcare records also command a hefty cost, ranging from 30$ to 50$ dollars per record. Granted, many of these records were simply leaked emails and website browsing history, without the login password and other similar types of information.

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Dangerous Ransomware 

According to a Google study, cyber-thieves have made over $25M from ransomware in the past 2 years. WannaCry as the hottest topic of the last half year is definitely one of the closest privacy issues that could happen to you.

Ransomware is usually delivered by phishing emails. The careless user first downloads the phishing email’s attachment and executes it. The ransomware then inserts commands into the Windows Registry so that it always boots up alongside the operating system.

Afterwards, the ransomware sets up a connection with the malicious hacker’s control server. The server then sends an encryption key to the ransomware so that the hacker can lock up most of the user data and ask for money.


There are much more types of privacy issues out there, but these are the biggest, judging by industry wide trends and concern among cyber security experts. Given attached relevant guides that can help you understand how they work, most of the prevention needs you improve the alert and use privacy eraser.