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Have my credentials leaked?

Here is the truth most "breach checker" sites will not tell you: a static web page cannot safely check breach databases for you. Any site that asks for your email and instantly invents a verdict is either harvesting your address or making the answer up. Here is the honest 5-minute check instead.

The 3 real steps

1

Check Have I Been Pwned yourself

Run by security researcher Troy Hunt. It uses k-anonymity, so your full email never leaves your browser during the lookup. Type your address there — not here.

Open Have I Been Pwned →
2

Kill password reuse with a password manager + passkeys

Breaches hurt because one leaked password unlocks ten accounts. A password manager gives every site a unique password; passkeys remove passwords entirely where supported. Do this for email first — your inbox is the master key to everything else.

3

If you were in a breach: contain it today

Change the password everywhere you reused it, turn on two-factor authentication on every important account, and expect phishing emails that reference the breach — attackers buy these lists and personalize their lures.

Breach-response checklist — tap as you go

Why we do not ask for your email: a breach lookup needs your real address, and we will not collect addresses on a free static page. Sites that do are building a list — of people who just admitted they worry about breaches. That list is exactly what phishers want.
Get BreachHunter — continuous breach monitoring →

BreachHunter watches breach feeds for your addresses and alerts you the moment you appear in a new one — so you hear it from us first, not from a phisher.

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