You can set up a profile to monitor the dark web so you can learn if your info is found in breaches.
You can check for data on the dark web that might be associated with your email address or other info you add to your monitoring profile. Breach results may contain information including:
- Your name
- Address
- Phone number
- Social Security Number (SSN)
- Username
- Password
Tip: Only accounts based in the US can add a Social Security Number to their monitoring profile.
Any information found in the breach results will be displayed in redacted form to maintain data privacy.
With the results, you can review your information and make informed decisions about how to protect yourself.
Eligibility
To be eligible for dark web reports, you must have a consumer Google Account. Dark web report is not available for Google Workspace accounts and supervised accounts.
Countries or regions where dark web report is availableImportant: The types of personal information scanned by dark web report may vary by country or region.
Dark web report is currently available in:
- Albania
- Algeria
- Argentina
- Austria
- Australia
- Bangladesh
- Belgium
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Denmark
- Ecuador
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Ireland
- Israel
- Italy
- Japan
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- Nicaragua
- Norway
- Pakistan
- Philippines
- Senegal
- Slovenia
- South Korea
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Taiwan
- Türkiye
- Ukraine
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Venezuela
- Vietnam
Set up your monitoring profile
You can choose to monitor just your Google Account email address or add other information to your monitoring profile.
- On your computer, go to Dark web report.
- Under Dark web report, click Start monitoring.
- To include additional Google Account personal information in your monitoring profile:
- Select the desired checkboxes.
- Click Allow.
- Confirm your selections and add any additional data you want to monitor.
- Click Done.
Get your results
- On your computer, go to Dark web report.
- To get all of your results, click View all results.
- To find additional details for a result, click the result.
- To filter your results by personal information type, at the top right, click the Down arrow
.
- Choose a data type:
- SSN
- Name
- Date of birth
- Address
- Up to 10 email addresses
- Up to 3 phone numbers
- Credit card number
- Password
- Username
- Gender
.Take action:
- On your computer, go to Dark web report.
- Click a result.
- To get recommended actions, scroll to “Suggested next steps.”
- On your computer, go to Dark web report
View results.
- Under “Data breaches with your info,” click Edit monitoring profile.
View results.Update your phone number
- On your computer, go to Dark web report
- Under “Data breaches with your info,” click Edit monitoring profile.
- Scroll to “Phone (# of 3 added).”
- To the right of the phone number, click Delete
.
- To add a new number, click Add number.
.Delete your monitoring profile
- On your computer, go to Dark web report
- Under “Data breaches with your info,” click Edit monitoring profile.
- At the bottom, click Delete monitoring profile.
- On the “Delete monitoring profile?” confirmation screen, click Delete
How we use your monitoring profile info
When you set up your monitoring profile, your profile info is used to check whether a match was found on the dark web. If matching info is found, we'll email or notify you. You can find guidance on how to protect your personal information on the Security page of your Google Account.
Learn how Google protects your privacy and keeps you in control.
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