You always read about stolen passwords. Maybe your data has also fallen victim to hackers?
It's a daily game of cat and mouse: Hackers attack databases of large companies, sometimes cracking them and stealing users' email addresses or usernames and passwords. Shortly afterwards, they publish it on the Internet so that others can also use the data for illegal activities.
The online security check
The German Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) developed an online security check a long time ago that is intended to enable Internet users to check exactly that.
Has your identity data been spied on?
Personal identity information is stolen through criminal cyberattacks every day. A large part of the stolen information is then published in Internet databases and serves as the basis for further illegal activities.
With the HPI Identity Leak Checker you can use your email address to check whether your personal identity data has already been published on the Internet. Data comparison is used to check whether your email address has been disclosed on the Internet in conjunction with other personal data (e.g. telephone number, date of birth or address) and could be misused.
>> You can access the security check here
After you have entered your email address, it will be checked by the HPI Identity Leak Checker. The user receives a reply email in which they find out whether they are affected and whether their data is freely accessible to everyone in a stolen identity data set on the Internet. In this case, we will also inform you about the type and approximate time of the data theft.
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