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Abstract
It is important to study the risks of publishing privacy-sensitive data. Even
if sensitive identities (e.g., name, social security number) were removed and
advanced data perturbation techniques were applied, several de-anonymization
attacks have been proposed to re-identify individuals. However, existing
attacks have some limitations: 1) they are limited in de-anonymization
accuracy; 2) they require prior seed knowledge and suffer from the imprecision
of such seed information.
We propose a novel structure-based de-anonymization attack, which does not
require the attacker to have prior information (e.g., seeds). Our attack is
based on two key insights: using multi-hop neighborhood information, and
optimizing the process of de-anonymization by exploiting enhanced machine
learning techniques. The experimental results demonstrate that our method is
robust to data perturbations and significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art
de-anonymization techniques by up to $10\times$ improvement.