Find out if your personal data is vulnerable to hackers

scammers Victims in virtual environments can access the leaked data via some platforms at any time. However, there is a way to check if a Personal Data and exposed.

Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) is used by government agencies and companies to perform data exposure analysis. But the tool is also available to other citizens. Check out the analysis example:

“Twitter (200 million): In early 2023, more than 200 million records extracted from Twitter appeared on a popular hacking forum.

The data was obtained sometime in 2021 by abusing an API that allowed email addresses to be converted into Twitter profiles.

Subsequent hits were then formed into a dataset containing email addresses along with general Twitter profile information including names, usernames, and follower counts.

What was affected: email addresses, names, social media profiles, and usernames.”

How do you know if your data has been disclosed?

To find out if your data has been exposed, simply enter your email into the HIBP search field and click “pwned?”. In addition to email, you can use a cell phone number to perform the search. To do this, just enter it in the international format, which is: [+] [código do país] [DDD sem o zero] [número de telefone].

For example, you can see that HIBP provides the following data in cases of breach:

• how many people were exposed to the data;
• when it happened
• How was the breach discovered?
• the company that hosted the data before it was leaked;
• What data specifically was disclosed in the breach in question.

In addition to detecting an email or phone data leak, HIBP can help solve a problem safety So that there is no violation of this information. For this, the platform uses two resources.

By clicking “Notify Me” and providing the email, the site will notify you if any data is leaked. The “unsubscribe” button makes the email hidden from access by scammers after this data.

From the moment the user confirms its invisibility E-mailIt will not be possible to make the query on the website. After all, your email will be hidden. However, you can still register to receive notifications about violations.

Another tool, Domain Search allows domain owners to access potential leaks in their domain database.

If your data has been compromised, follow these steps:

• Change your passwords
• Verify that there is no invasion of any bank account and contact the bank;
• Check access to social networks, eg Instagram;
• Enable two-step verification on social media accounts.