Patent ID: 9710868
Date: 2017-07-18
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q,H04L

Claim:
1. A method comprising: generating, by a computer system, a search-engine query from stored identity-theft nomenclature; querying, by the computer system, at least one search engine via the search-engine query; crawling, by the computer system, at least one computer-network resource identified via the querying; collecting, by the computer system, identity-theft information from the at least one computer-network resource; wherein the at least one computer-network resource comprises a chat room; wherein the collecting comprises logging chat dialog from the chat room into a chat log database; and processing, by the computer system, the identity-theft information for compromised personally-identifying information (PII), wherein the processing comprises discovering new chat rooms based, at least in part, on an analysis of chat dialogs in the chat log database and storing the compromised PII.