Pressfront / Trace / Got doxxed? Be safe, save it, report it, lock it down.
Help guide · Updated October 2026
Doxxing means someone posted your private details, like your address or phone, to point a crowd at you. Here is the first hour, in order.
Report it, platform by platform
Where the buttons areIf you think you are in danger right now, call 911 (or your local emergency number) first. Everything else can wait.
The private-account rule. We never log in, follow anyone, request access to a locked account, or use scraped private data. A private account is invisible to us and stays that way. So what you see below is the earliest public appearance we could verify, never a proven origin. If a story started in a group chat, a DM or a locked profile, the first public post is the node we can see, and we say so rather than dressing it up as the source.
Run one yourself: Trace a story. How the sweep and the confidence number are built: the methodology card.
Some doxxers call police with a fake emergency at the target’s address. It is called swatting. Calling your local police non-emergency line early, so they know, is a sensible step.
Google Results about you asks Google to stop showing pages with your phone, address or email. The page itself stays up. People-search sites each have their own opt-out form. Paid removal services do this for you, if it is worth it to you.
Later, you may want to know where the post first appeared and which accounts spread it. Trace shows the earliest public post we can verify and the biggest spreaders, and you can keep it as an evidence pack for a platform, lawyer or police report.
Trace never unmasks anyone, never reads private accounts or DMs, and cannot take anything down. It only shows what is public and says what it could not see.
It depends on where you live and what was done with the information. Threats, stalking and harassment are crimes in many places. A lawyer or the police can tell you what applies to you.
Often, because the big platforms ban posting someone's home address or phone number. Nothing is promised, and copies can spread, so save evidence before you report.
No. Trace never tries to unmask a person. It shows the earliest public post we can verify and which public accounts spread it, and you decide what to do with that.
Only you can judge that. Start with the steps above and talk to the police if you feel unsafe. Free groups like Right To Be can help you think it through.
Earliest public post, who spread it, and an evidence pack you can keep.
Honest fine print. Trace reports the earliest public appearance we could verify inside the window we searched, which is not the same thing as a proven origin. We only read public posts and public metrics, so deleted posts, screenshots laundered out of private accounts, and anything that started in a DM or a locked group are invisible to us, and every result names the sources that came back empty. Confidence is a number we publish together with the gaps behind it, never on its own. Trace describes what has already happened and how fast it is moving right now; it does not predict what will go viral, and no honest tool does.