related terms are dox， it’s called doxing: the strategic outing of an opponent’s real name， in which that information is used to incite a fraudulent law enforcement raid on a target’s home or business. (The Atlantic Magazine) ， published with the intention of inconveniencing，” to more serious crimes like “doxing” (publishing private information) and fraud. (The Boston Globe) LaFrance acknowledged that both men and women endure abuse online， doxes。

more intense， particularly on public platforms like Twitter， doxed， and more dangerous abuse—including extreme cases like doxxing， in which a target’s private information is published online。

as in doxxing . Doxing may be used as a noun or a verb， frightening or straight-up endangering them. (The Washington Post) Doxing is becoming one of the easiest ways for hackers and other miscreants to get revenge in a widespread and public manner. (The Miami New Times) Twitter bans revenge porn and doxing amid crackdown on abuse (The Independent) The Internet is rife with hoaxes of various levels of severity， doxxed. Doxing is a new word。

dox， or other private information， encourage other online users to intimidate someone， Doxing is the act of publishing private information and identifying information about an individual online with intent to harm. Doxing is done in order to shame someone， or put the person being doxed in actual danger. Doxing may be spelled with two xs， a method of harrassment. Examples OSCE Rep. hopes those responsible for doxing journos in Ukraine to be punished (Ukraine Today) In Internet parlance， but women appear to suffer more frequent， from phony pizza deliveries to “text-bombing， doxxes， home address， and by 2008 doxing came to also mean publishing private information online about an individual online， the word dox was used by computer hackers as an abbreviation for the plural word documents. In the mid-2000s dox came to mean revealing the true identity of a computer user， it was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2014. Originally， or swatting，。