I don’t really understand how you people are saying one’s identity can be out in the public, till you don’t share your personal details no one can find out who’s doing the transactions. Also I feel the only people who really need to be worried are the ones who have given KYC to an exchange, in that case they may get your information. As these hacks keep on rising I feel we all should stop clicking on suspicious links, and use 2fa for greater security.
I also don't know how would they be doing it at the first read of this article, but then I stumble upon this on this same post. Credits to @cissrawk:
Scammers recently realized that Bitcoin users do not pay much attention to these tiny amounts showing up in their wallets, so they began "dusting" a large number of addresses by sending a few satoshis to them. They then started to track those funds and all transactions of those dusted wallets, which allowed them to link addresses and to eventually determine the companies or individuals behind those wallet addresses. This knowledge can later be used to construct targeted phishing attacks or attacks such as cyber-extortion on unaware victims.
Good thing that my spending habits aren't that much grand, or my addresses aren't that much exposed. A same dust attack happened in 2015 and 2016, though their intentions are to clog the blockchain and not necessarily steal information like the recent dusting attacks we know.
