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Check whether your email address appeared in a data breach
Use a leak checker to find out whether your email address or login details appeared in a data breach.
- Time
- ⏱ 5 min
- Difficulty
- ◆ easy
How to do it
- Go to the checker's official site directly, not through links in emails.
- Enter your email address or username.
- If there are hits, secure the affected accounts immediately with a new password.
Variations
- The consumer advice centre of North Rhine-Westphalia (Verbraucherzentrale NRW) presents three checkers: HPI Identity Leak Checker, Identity Leak Checker and Have I Been Pwned.
Sources
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- verbraucherzentrale.nrw (opens in a new tab)
Verbraucherzentrale NRW stellt drei seriöse Online-Angebote vor, um es zu testen.“ und „Have I Been Pwned
