(WAVY) -- Did you get a text this week from someone alleging to be the Department of Motor Vehicles? After a swarm of scam texts, Virginians are left wondering how their personal information fell into malicious hands.

10 On Your Side went looking for answers. It turns out, people may have handed over their information willingly, but unknowingly.

Lena Cohen works with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Cohen said it's likely their information was unknowingly sold for profit.

"We want to make sure that the rights you have offline come with you when you use the Internet," Cohen said. "We live in a country without a comprehensive federal privacy law, so your your personal data has been freely harvested and s

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