Patent Document ID: 9235728
Application ID: 13398471

Base Claim:
1. A method comprising: accessing, by a computer system, stored identity-theft nomenclature; wherein the stored identity-theft nomenclature comprises a changing set of words and phrases determined to be suggestive of at least one of: identity theft; and exchange of identity-theft information; generating, by the computer system, a search-engine query from the stored identity-theft nomenclature; querying, by the computer system, at least one search engine via the search-engine query; identifying, by the computer system, at least one new computer-network resource responsive to the querying; crawling, by the computer system, the at least one new computer-network resource; collecting, by the computer system, identity-theft information from the at least one new computer-network resource; processing, by the computer system, the identity-theft information for compromised personally-identifying information (PII); and wherein the processing comprises: analyzing the identity-theft information for new identity-theft nomenclature; and storing any new identity-theft nomenclature with the stored identity-theft nomenclature.

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Claim 22:
22. The method of claim 1 , wherein the identity-theft information comprises a uniform resource locator (URL) to a website that is determined likely to relate to identity theft.