There are companies buying and selling your information behind the scenes, and you probably won't know until it's leaked.
Some firms may purchase datasets from other companies that got permission to collect it — online retailers, for example.
But there's another potential source — other data breaches that have already spilled volumes of sensitive data.Plenty of data brokers and credit agencies have had data breaches in recent years. Most notably, the You can take a few steps to try and protect yourself from such data collection, said Suranga Seneviratne, a computer security lecturer at the University of Sydney.
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