Nowadays many websites and apps send alert to the user themselves if their data has been leaked. But if you have ever used an old password again, the danger increases. Therefore, it is important that you check yourself from time to time whether your password is not leaked online.
In this article, we will tell three easy and free methods from which you can check whether your email or password has been included in a data leak.
1. Check by putting email on Have I Been PWNED website
There is a free and most popular tool, which suggests whether your email has become part of any data leak. The best thing is that this tool is absolutely free from the beginning to date. To use it, first open the website, then enter your email address and “PWNED?” Click on
If your data is found in a leak, the website will tell you which company and when it happened. This tool is completely safe and does not demand any password.
2. Check Breach Alert from Google Password Supervisor
If you use Chrome and save passwords in Google, you can easily find out from Google Password Supervisor whether any of your passwords have come in the breech.
Steps:
- Go to Chrome> Settings> Autofill> Password Supervisor
- Click on “Check Passwords” option
- Google will show you which passwords are leaked, weak or are being used again and again
3. Firefox track can also get leak information
There is also a service based on Have I Been Pwned API. Here too, you can know by putting an email whether your account has ever been breeted or not. In this, you can also set an email alert, so that if there is a brach in the future, you can know immediately.
If the password is leaked, what to do?
- If you have got a leak, immediately replace that password from everywhere
- Wherever the same password was used, put different strong passwords there.
- Do turn on 2‑issue authentication (2fa)
- Use password manager so that you can keep different and strong passwords everywhere
