Check if your email address or password has been compromised in data breach
Check if your email address or password has been compromised: Do you want to check if your personal information such as email addresses, passwords, IP address etc have been compromised in a data breach? Have I Been Pwned offer a really great service to help keep your sensitive information out the hands of hackers by informing you as soon as there is a known data breach. Have I Been Pwned can also check if a password that you use has been in any known data breaches. https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords
Have I Been Pwned – “Pwned Passwords are 555,278,657 real world passwords previously exposed in data breaches. This exposure makes them unsuitable for ongoing use as they’re at much greater risk of being used to take over other accounts. They’re searchable online below as well as being downloadable for use in other online systems.”
Step 1: Browse to https://haveibeenpwned.com/
Step 2: Enter your email address
Step 3: If Have I Been Pwned indicates that its good news then you have nothing to worry about your email address is not known to have been included in any breached email address dumps.
Step 4: If Have I Been Pwned indicates Oh no — pwned! this means that your email address has been included in a recent data breach take precautions watch you don’t fall victim to malicious emails. When email addresses are compromised and known to hackers there will often be a increase in spam email/spear-phishing email’s. Have I been Pwned will include a list of compromised services always change your email addresses and passwords at compromised sites and services always use 2FA when possible.
Using a password manager helps you secure all your passwords online strong and unique are best so that a breach of one service doesn’t put your other services and accounts at risk.
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Check if your password has been Pwned
If you would like to check if your password was included in any recent known data breaches go to https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords and enter the passwords you would like to check.
Firefox Monitor – “Firefox Monitor warns you if your email address has been exposed in an online data breach. See if your information has been exposed, learn how to better protect your online accounts, and get alerted if your email address appears in a new breach.”
Firefox Monitor breach data is provided by Have I Been Pwned
Step 1: Browse to https://monitor.firefox.com
Step 2: Sign in to https://monitor.firefox.com
Step 3: Verify your email addresses
Step 4: You can now choose to receive email alerts from Firefox Monitor to be informed if your email address if ever compromised in a data breach.
Using Firefox Monitor you can also search to see if individual websites or companies have been compromised in any known data breaches.
https://monitor.firefox.com/breaches
