Data Breach & Leak Check: Has Your Data Been Exposed?

The answer depends on the incident. A breach may expose relatively basic account information, or it may include more sensitive fields. Common examples include:

• Email addresses used to identify accounts or contact customers.
• Phone numbers attached to accounts, profiles, orders, or support records.
• Names and profile information stored by the affected service.
• Passwords or password-related data in some incidents.
• Other account or transaction details, depending on what the organisation stored and what was accessed.

Manual searching is useful, but it depends on knowing where to look. A broader exposure scan checks your submitted phone number and email against a defined collection of sources at once and brings relevant matches into one plain-language report.

Scan My Shadow's ₹498 scan checks your phone number and email across 1,500+ sources, including known breach records and publicly indexed sources relevant to exposure. It is designed to help you understand what was found and what to do next.

1. Identify what was exposed. The breach name alone is not enough; look at the categories of data involved.
2. Change affected passwords. Use a new, unique password for the affected service.
3. Stop password reuse. If the same password was used elsewhere, change those accounts too.
4. Enable two-factor authentication. Add another layer of protection wherever the service supports it.
5. Watch for follow-up scams. Exposed contact information can make phishing and impersonation attempts more convincing.

Not all leaked data reaches the open web the same way. There are two distinct pipelines worth understanding:

• Breach dumps. A company's database is stolen wholesale — usually structured, often containing passwords (hashed or plain), and typically posted once on a hacking forum before being copied and recirculated for years.
• Stealer logs. Malware on an infected device silently captures whatever is typed or auto-filled — including passwords for sites that were never breached themselves. These get bundled into "logs" and sold or traded on Telegram channels and dark-web marketplaces, often for a few dollars per thousand records.

Over time, threat actors merge multiple breach dumps and stealer logs from different sources into single "combo lists" — which is why a check can sometimes surface an email in a breach the original service never announced. The record didn't leak from that service; it was assembled afterward from several separate incidents.

• We do not claim to search the entire internet or every dark-web dataset.
• We do not guarantee 100% accuracy or completeness.
• We do not access private account contents, inboxes, passwords, or private messages.
• The scan is focused on the phone number and email you submit.

These aren't abstract — here's what a real leaked or breached record typically contains:

• A SaaS credential dump — an email address paired with a hashed (or occasionally plaintext) password from a signup years ago, still circulating in “combolists” used for automated login attempts elsewhere.
• An e-commerce customer database — name, address, order history, and sometimes partial payment details, exposed when a retailer's backend is compromised.
• A healthcare or insurance breach — records that go beyond the basics — policy numbers, diagnosis codes, or insurance IDs — which is why these breaches are treated more seriously than most.
• A recycled breach re-surfacing — the same dataset re-posted months or years later under a new name, which is why a single clean check doesn't guarantee permanent safety.

A breach and leak check's value is in matching your specific email or phone number against known incidents like these — not guessing whether something “might” be out there.