Threat actor
PeekYou
Last fetched
PeekYou is a threat actor tracked in WhisperGraph's MITRE ATT&CK corpus, observed using 0 techniques.
Description
PeekYou is a U.S.-based people-search engine founded in 2006 that aggregates publicly available personal info, such as your name, age, location, links to social media profiles (from sources that include Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter/X, Instagram, TikTok), blogs, and maps out possible relatives, with all data curated into searchable profiles. The company had applied for a patent for a method that matches people's real names to the pseudonyms they use on social media, blogs and other websites.
Techniques by tactic
No ATT&CK techniques are recorded for PeekYou in WhisperGraph.
Attributed infrastructure
None published. WhisperGraph carries no ATTRIBUTED_TO edge to PeekYou today — this states the absence of a published link, not that PeekYou has no infrastructure.
References
- https://hstalks.com/article/4224/unified-surveillance-systems-data-mining-with-peek/
- https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703358504575544381288117888
- https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20121218/NEWS/312189956/market-for-health-info-could-see-new-light-as-ftc-targets-data-miners/
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2010/10/20/civilizing-the-internet-one-lawsuit-at-a-time-for-now/
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Related pages
Pivot from PeekYou into its techniques, tactics and any attributed infrastructure.
Queries
Resolves the slug to this actor, merging every duplicate node sharing the same name.
MATCH (a:ACTOR)
WHERE a.name =~ $pattern OR any(x IN a.aliases WHERE x =~ $pattern)
RETURN a.id AS id, a.name AS name, a.aliases AS aliases, a.description AS description,
a.references AS references, a.campaigns AS campaigns
LIMIT 25Run yourself →Techniques this actor uses, grouped by the tactic each one serves.
MATCH (a:ACTOR {name: $name})-[:USES_TECHNIQUE]->(t:ATTACK_PATTERN)
OPTIONAL MATCH (t)-[:USES_TACTIC]->(tac:ATTACK_PATTERN)
RETURN t.id AS techniqueId, t.name AS techniqueName, tac.id AS tacticId, tac.name AS tacticName
LIMIT 1000Run yourself →Infrastructure publicly attributed to this actor.
MATCH (n)-[:ATTRIBUTED_TO]->(a:ACTOR {name: $name})
RETURN labels(n)[0] AS kind, n.name AS name
LIMIT 25Run yourself →Or query Whisper from your own LLM workflow via the Whisper MCP server.