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

Nexstar's WAVY went looking for answers. It turns out, you may have handed over your information willingly, but unknowingly.

Lena Cohen works with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. Cohen said it's likely your 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 personal data has been freely harvested and sold for a long time."

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