Your address is online. Strangers have started contacting you.

Doxing

Doxing is publishing or distributing someone’s private identifying information without consent in a way that exposes them to unwanted access, harassment or danger.

The distance between online and physical life is reduced. Information shared once can allow unknown people to contact, locate or act against the person exposed.

You may monitor new contact, change accounts or phone numbers, restrict ordinary activity or worry that your home and daily routines are no longer private. Checking may continue because the information cannot simply be recalled.

Reporting to authorities, documenting harm and sharing necessary information with trusted support are not doxing. Public records also require context. The distinction is unnecessary public distribution that removes safety and choice, not legitimate, proportionate disclosure for protection or accountability.

You do not need to decide what it is. You can note the date and what happened, and read it back later.

One moment rarely tells the whole story. Look at what repeats over time—and what happens when harm, disagreement or a boundary is named.