Data Leaks and Their Effects: How to check if your data has been leaked?

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If your credentials are compromised it means that bad actors can steal your personal data from the companies that have it, it can be brought on the DarkNet marketplaces or even found in corporate databases that are not properly secure. We have an easily accessible, free data leak checker tool👆 which has a 500 GB database of hashed, leaked emails. It’s currently the biggest known tool on the planet and we don’t log any of the entered information!

A data leak can happen due to weak security measures or sometimes just down to a fault which has gone unnoticed by a company. On the other hand a data breach from a bad actor is always unauthorized and usually results in a data leak of some form!

🚨 Just earlier this year our very own investigation team found a data leak which was pretty big, even for today's standards considering the 2020 average is 7 million records a day. We found 350 million decrypted email addresses left exposed on an unsecured server!

🚨 Another example of a leak discovered by our investigation team is when 172,000 users data was leaked by the Swedish social media company Panion. Again, this was through an unsecured data bucket left on an Amazon Web services server and accessible to the public. The worst part about it all was that the bucket also contained hundreds of thousands of images presumably exchanged by users of the app.

Now, if you’re thinking, I don’t know or use the mentioned services then you might want to look a little closer to home. Even companies we use on a regular basis have been compromised one time or another:

🚨 Just to mention one of the many data leaks we’ve seen from Facebook - back in 2019, 419 million users phone numbers, names and in some cases location data were stored on a number of unsecured databases. 👎

🚨 5 Years earlier we saw Millions of Ebay users' personal information exposed when a hacker used employee credentials to gain unauthorized access to their corporate network. 👎

🚨 Lastly, who could forget about the Yahoo attacks which really put the severity of data leaks to the cybersecurity forefront? The company suffered a number of breaches spanning from 2012 - 2016 and even one in 2013 which affected a catastrophic 3 billion users. 👎

0:00 intro
0:42 What is a data leak and how does it happen?
1:23 The results of a data leak
2:30 Too close to home
3:16 Checking if your accounts have been breached

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[CasamTheAnimator]

If you want to make a strong password, make it a lot longer, so it's stronger, it won't be exposed, it will be private.

[bubplays]

Thank you so much this happened to me just 2 minutes ago and i was really worried i changed my password really quickly and had no idea what it meant thank you so much

[olgaycelik]

I hope you also don't collect our emails when entering the field. The world has so changed that everyone is stealing information instead money!

[chloewang]

I got my phone factory reset, the person that did it was a technician I trust very much, because I got pop ups and my phone was extremely slow also the excessive use of storage plus the compromised passwords from gmail and apps. But the technician said that my photos and notes have all been hacked what do I do now?

[iiNavy]

Thanks so much! My friend said that someone released my IP but he keeps saying it isnt a joke and even if i said "say iiNavy I promise its a joke" he would not respond to it.

[rhyshall]

I was scrolling through a website and accidentally clicked an ad. Now all Apple says 49 passwords “have appeared in a data leak which put the accounts in a risk of compromise” what do I do

[ThugHunter_]

Happen to me today thanks for the video

[jrreg]

so where is the base? let me check it by myself

[strwberrigutz]

I was just on Google and accidentally clicked on a link and just started my showing notifications on the screen that my security data has been leaked 😭

Update:recently ive been getting pop ups on my screen when i go on apps saying my password has been leaked in a huge data leak

[chongtak]

If I change my password, will my email appears to have been hacked afterwards? If so, how to know whether my email account is still compomised or not? Let's say I change my password now, my email will still appear as compromised? Next year after having changed my password several times, will my account still appear as compromised? Are there updates? Finally, is the link really usueful?

[ushefdsji]

how can i remove my leaked data from the internet?

[fiteclangaming]

I’m scared bc my iPhone said my data has been leaked and my phone been acting up. Idk what to do could you help

[rainingikea]

Thanks this was very helpful i liked and subbed

[omnisystem]

I went in this sketchy website to watch something and then I clicked off then it asked me to add something to my Calendar and I accidentally clicked yes then it said my password got leaked then I quickly deleted the Calender thing and changed my password so am I going to be ok

[criticallydumb]

im shaking i downloaded a file from someone i met online (keep in mind im 12 i have no idea what im doing) they sent me every bit of my information. like my whole FAMILYS emails, this includes school, emails, personal, and work emails and they also have passwords they basically took everything please help im very afraid please respond. ALSO they know this stuff Compromised data: full names, dates of birth, geographical location, IP address, passwords, usernames and email addresses. please help me (wait can they access my moms credit card through her gmail?)

[dizzyblackwidowspid]

If my passwords were in a data leak and I changed them to more secure passwords should I be good

[leonelfoxy]

is it illegal for company to hide the fact of leaked data? because i think every company in one or another way had breaches and so on. they just found a way to hide the information

[TarunSingh-jmwy]

Bro, i am glad I found you! i recently used a data recovery app from a play store which recovered some of the thumbnail sized images multiple copies. The app has so many fake reviews and also wrong English in description and all.
Is also asked if I want to delete a file like this:
Delete?? With 2 question marks. All that made me worried, i also tried to contact developer but no response at all.

Is that anyways possible ki mera data app developer k pass b save hua ho? I also reported this to google play vaise. Please reply

[artworld]

Is good apps can also steal and leakes photo and videos please reply please 🥺