For context: I am a minor, and have residence in both the US and EU.
I was doxxed online on the site Doxbin. I was actually blacklisted on the site, so the dox was near instantly removed. However, before it was removed, it was archived on a website called archive.today. I have sent multiple reports and emails to the site’s owner to attempt to remove it, however have gotten no response at all.
I was able to remove the dox from appearing on search engines like Google, which has helped, but some people have still been able to find the archived dox, and have used it to attempt to harass me.
Does anyone have any advice here or ideas to try to get this damn thing removed? I’ve faced extreme harassment and stalking from this situation, as well as other distress. I’m willing to pay however much I can afford at this point if needed, I just want this gone, so that I can retain my privacy.
let me understand the issue. is it that this dox associates a username with your real life identity? and do you use the same username across different websites and social media? it seems to me the solution is to use new accounts with different usernames that aren’t linked to the old accounts in any way
i’m not sure i understand. if you’ve disassociated yourself from that identity which was doxed, and you’re not sharing your first name and last names, how would they know how to find that dox? or that that dox contains your real information?
is it an adversary pursuing you that already has your information? surely you can only assume they have that saved somewhere. even if you manage to get it removed, there’s no guarantee that will prevent them from harassing your further. if that’s the case, i agree with valynor that it might be a police/lawyer situation
imo damage would be largely mitigated if, as you said, you did a fresh start. because even though your info is out there, if you’re careful enough and have good opsec there’s it’s unlikely people would be able to figure out that a new identity is you.
but what was the reason for the dox? is it some drama on social media?
it is relevant though. cause if posts on social media are the cause hiding/ deleting those posts and taking steps to make the account less visible could help quiet things, if not just deleting the account
The fact that IRL details are online opens opportunities for people to harass and bully
i don’t know how important that social media account is to you. but if it’s not that important then as i said i’d assume you would probably be a lot less of a target if you delete your account or take steps to reduce visibility like deleting posts (though on some social media your posts are not deleted when you delete your account, you have to delete them manually)
that’s interesting. probably not then, if those people are dedicated enough to target someone who hasn’t posted in a year than deleting the account likely wouldn’t help…
i think its worth a try (although you could exclude the bit about being the owner of the domain and removing all content from domain), cause it seems these companies dont always validate the dmca, (e.g. with youtube, they always take the video down even if the request is clearly bogus)
EDIT: i’ll just add that if they respond asking for proof of identity, then you should probably just leave it and not reply (though i don’t think they will ask for that)
