Patent ID: 9015157
Filing Date: 2015-04-21
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: processing a search by a device for publicly-available sensitive information of an individual on a network, the publicly-available sensitive information comprising a plurality of items of personal information associated with the individual, the plurality of items of personal information comprising a first item of personal information associated with the individual, a second item of personal information associated with the individual, and a third item of personal information associated with the individual, wherein the plurality of items of personal information include at least three items selected from a name, an email address, a telephone number, a street address, and a social security number; obtaining at the device search results of the search for the publicly-available sensitive information, the search results comprising a list of documents containing at least one item in the plurality of items of personal information; assigning an individual score for each document in the list of documents, the individual score for a particular document being based on a number of occurrences within the search results which contain the particular document in the list of documents; assigning by the device combinatorial scores for combinations of items in the plurality of items of personal information, wherein a particular combination of items contained within a single document listed in the list of documents is assigned a greater combinational score than the particular combination of items being contained collectively across multiple documents listed in the list of documents having a common link with one another, wherein the common link is the one item in the plurality of items of personal information being contained in the multiple documents; and determining by the device a level of security risk that exists to the individual based on the publicly-available sensitive information of the individual obtained from the search results of the search, the level of security risk indicated from a plurality of different levels of security risks based on the individual score and one of the combinatorial scores assigned to the search results of the search, wherein an increasing number of occurrences of documents listed in the list of documents increases the level of security risk, wherein the level of security risk comprises a member from a group comprising a level of risk for identity theft, a level of risk for a privacy breach, and a level of risk for receiving spam.