Computer Tricks and Secrets

Short answer: Go to haveibeenpwned.com , type in your email address, and it tells you exactly which data breaches exposed your details. If you get a hit, change that password everywhere you reused it and turn on two-factor authentication straight away. Almost everyone I know has wondered at some point whether their email got hacked. The good news is you no longer have to guess. There are trustworthy, free breach-checking services that let you find out in seconds, and I run this check on my own accounts a few times a year. How do I check if my email was in a data breach? The tool I trust and use myself is Have I Been Pwned, run by security researcher Troy Hunt. It aggregates data from thousands of real breaches so you can see if your address appears in any of them. Open haveibeenpwned.com . Type your email address into the search box and press the button. Read the result. Green means no known breach; red lists every breach your address appeared in, with dates and what data leak...