Has your email address or telephone number been breached?
Unfortunately data theft is very common place in the world today and in most cases it is not our fault that our details have been accessed. More often than not, it is the large companies that hold millions of records of peoples personal details that are the targets of hackers.
What is a website breach?
A website data breach happens when cyber criminals steal, copy, or expose personal information from online accounts. It’s usually a result of hackers finding a weak spot in the website’s security. Breaches can also happen when account information gets leaked by accident.
It can sometimes take months or years for credentials exposed in a data breach to appear on the dark web.
Fortunately all is not lost and there are a few websites that you can check your email address and even your telephone number.
These include:
Having done your check log back into these accounts and change your password immediately and don’t use the same password on each website!
The most common passwords include:
- 123456
- 123456789
- qwerty
- password
- 12345
- qwerty123
- 1q2w3e
- 12345678
- 111111
- 1234567890
