Password
In today’s digital world, it has become common for your personal information such as e-mail, password etc. to leak. Cyber criminals are constantly targeting people in a new way. Users should change the password from time to time to save their personal information from leaking into the digital world. Also, any unknown e-mail, message etc. should be avoided. Your personal information can cause you to get into trouble due to the hand of cyber criminals. You may face big dangers like financial fraud, identity theft.
How to check?
You can find out about whether your email password and data has been leaked or not. For this, you have to follow some steps.
- First of all, find out whether your password is leaked or not? For this you have to go to a third party website. After this, you have to type your email address and click on the check. After this you will get an information on the screen, which will tell when and when your e-mail password has been a victim of data leaks. You can protect yourself from your personal information by changing the password of your email.
- Apart from this, you can also check your password through Google Password Checkup Tool. You can use this feature through Google Chrome. For this, you have to go to Google account in your Android smartphone. After this, you have to go to security and password manager. Here you can check your password. iPhone users can check passwords through Apple iCloud Keychain password monitoring tool.
- Apart from these tools, you will also get the option to check your password in web browser like Mozila Firefox, Microsoft Edge. Not only this, you can use the alert features when the password is leaked using tools like Lastpass, 1Password, Bitwarden and Keeper.
What to do when the password leaked?
If you will know whether the password is leaked somewhere or not, then you first change the password of your email account. After this, change the password of all the accounts where the leaked password is used. Enable the two-factor authentication (2fa) on your social media. In this way, you will not be able to log in to your account without approval.
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