E-mail address hacked? Do a free online check now

The Doxing affair at the beginning of the year made many Internet users aware of the dangers of an identity theft steel. The key to this is often the e-mail address, which almost always functions as a log-in name when shopping online, on social networks or in cloud and payment services. And to whom the "forgotten password" e-mails are usually sent...

The Hasso-Plattner-Institut's HPI Identity Leak Checker checks and informs you whether your e-mail address is in circulation in connection with personal data such as credit card data, telephone numbers or passwords. The basis of the comparison is a database in which all known leaks are entered and regularly updated. It now contains more than eight billion corrupted data records.

The following rules offer more data protection: The password for the email account should not be used anywhere else, complex & not too easy. It should be beyond that and ideally only select providers with 2-factor authentication procedures. Google now even offers authorisation via a physical chip key, without which it is not possible to log on to new computers & smartphones.

Check your e-mail address here for free at hpi.de