Have I Been Breached?
Check whether your personal email appeared in known data breaches — then follow the recovery steps below.
Step 1
Check your personal email
Open Have I Been Pwned and enter the inbox you use for banking, email, and important accounts. This checks your address — not just the service provider.
Step 2
Check password reuse
If an account was breached, assume passwords from that site are public. Test whether you reused them — analysis runs in your browser with k-anonymity.
Step 3
Lock down high-value accounts
- Enable two-factor authentication on email, banking, and crypto accounts
- Use a unique password for every site — not a variation of an old one
- Review recovery email and phone numbers on critical accounts
Step 4
Reduce re-exposure
Breach data often resurfaces on people-search and data broker sites. Removal is a separate layer from breach detection — but it matters if your name and address are showing up again.
Personal email vs business domain
Personal email
you@gmail.com, you@icloud.com — use Step 1 above (Have I Been Pwned).
Business domain
yourcompany.com — run our domain privacy audit for WHOIS, email security, and breach catalog matches.
Run domain auditHow this works
- Default Privacy does not operate a paid Have I Been Pwned API integration — we link you to their free browser check instead
- We never ask for your email on this page and do not store breach check results
- Password checking on /password-check uses HIBP's Pwned Passwords k-anonymity API in your browser
Breach recovery is one layer — identity on public records is another
If your name, home address, or phone number appear on Secretary of State filings or WHOIS records, an anonymous LLC can keep your personal identity off those public databases.
Explore anonymous LLC formationThis is 1 of 6 checks in the full Privacy Audit
Breach recovery is one layer. The full audit also checks WHOIS exposure, email security (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), browser fingerprint signals, and builds a prioritized fix list. Run all 6 checks at once and get a prioritized action plan with one-click fixes.