Data breach: Is your personal information on the dark web now?

A famous Stock-trading app Robinhood has proclaimed that a data breach had leaked the personal information of 7 million customers.

According to a press release, names, dates of birth, ZIP codes, email addresses, and “more extensive account details” were seeped as well.

In case your personal data has been breached, you won’t learn about it until any other company you entered your information informs you about a data breach.

By the time you are informed about the data theft your date of birth, Social Security number, credit card number, health records, or other data will have already been unprotected or stolen.

The stolen personal data enables the data thieves to do anything from charging on credit cards, making financial entitlements claiming to be you.

The worse part of the data theft is that billions of these hacked login credentials are easily accessible on the dark web, available for hackers to effortlessly download for free.

In order to protect further damage in case of credits are stolen, always ensure to use different and unique passwords on different sites.

To get informed about the cyber-attack or personal data breached from sites being hacked. Use monitoring tools to protect yourself from data roaming on dark web.

How to use Google’s Password Checkup

1. If you use Google’s password service to keep track of your login credentials in Chrome or Android, head to Google’s password manager site and tap Go to Check passwords.
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2. Tap Check Passwords and verify it’s you.
3. Enter the password for your Google account.
4. Google will display issues it’s found, including compromised, reused and weak passwords.
5. Use Change password button you can tap to pick a more secure one.

How to use Mozilla’s Firefox Monitor

1. To start, head to the Firefox Monitor page.
2. Enter an email address and tap Check for Breaches. If the email was part of a known breach since 2007, Monitor will show you which hack it was part of and what else may have been exposed.
3. Below a breach, tap More about this breach to see what was stolen and what steps Mozilla recommends.