Check If Your Email Was Hacked - Have I Been Pwned

Billions of accounts have been leaked from hacked websites. Your email is probably there too.

Want to check? There’s a free tool for that: Have I Been Pwned.

What Is It?

A website by security researcher Troy Hunt: just type your email and see if it was in any data breach. Simple.

The name? Gamer slang. “Pwned” means you got owned. Your data got stolen.

What You Can Do (Free)

Check your email - See which breaches include your data and what leaked (passwords, phone numbers, addresses).

Check your passwords - Hundreds of millions of leaked passwords in the database. If yours is there, change it now.

Get alerts - Sign up and get notified when your email shows up in future breaches.

Check your domain - Do you have a business? Check if employee emails got leaked.

For Greater Needs

They have paid plans for companies and developers who require:

• Higher API limits
• Large-scale domain monitoring
• Access to stealer logs (malware-stolen passwords)
• Enterprise support

Check their website for current options.

If You Got Pwned

1. Change the password - now
2. Check other sites - using the same password anywhere else? Change those too
3. Enable two-factor auth - much harder for hackers
4. Use a password manager - different password at every website
5. Subscribe to receive notifications - know when it happens again

Bottom Line

Data breaches happen all the time. It’s not if you got pwned - it’s how many times.

This tool shows you the damage. What you do next is up to you.

Check now: haveibeenpwned.com