IA-T-03Level 1 · Signal
Identity or PII on the dark web
- Threat
- Neutral
- Level 1 · Signal
A threat signal from a dark-web exposure feed: the person's personal details, such as home address, phone number or identity documents, are traded on criminal markets.
Classification
- Risk domain One of 9 areas of human risk, from social engineering to readiness and response. Every signal belongs to one.
- Evidence level
- Maturity practices One capability a program performs, scored on its own: See, Understand, Act, Prove, Govern and Culture.
- Leads to The kind of breach the evidence beneath it points toward, each anchored to a Verizon DBIR or VERIS pattern or an FBI IC3 category.
- NIST CSF 2.0
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- ID.RA-02
- MITRE ATT&CK
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- T1589
The definition, in detail
Definition
It gives attackers material for pretexting and account-recovery fraud.
Example
An executive assistant's home address and mobile number appear in a dark-web listing, and a week later she receives a call quoting both.
How it is measured
- Subject
- Person
- Event
- exposure.darkweb
- Risk domain
- Identity and access
- Provenance
- Forrester
How it is used
Programs count "Identity or PII on the dark web" per person from Breach & dark-web exposure and read it beside the other Identity and access signals; it feeds 0 cohorts, 0 sequences and 2 breach scenarios.
A "identity or PII on the dark web" record is evidence of what reaches the person (the threat side of the model). It says nothing on its own about what the person did.
Technical mappings
Framework mappings; validate for your use case.
Continue exploring
"Identity or PII on the dark web" (IA-T-03), Human Risk Management Framework v2.0.0, Living Security, CC BY 4.0. https://www.humanriskmanagement.com/taxonomy/signals/ia-t-03-identity-or-pii-on-the-dark-web
Part of the open HRM Taxonomy, CC BY 4.0. Download the taxonomy as JSON · Version history. This page describes one signal.
The initial assessment
Find your level.Then fix what matters.
18 questions, about 4 minutes and nothing to type before the result: your level, a score for each practice and three first playbooks, each Easy, Medium or Hard.