Email Privacy Risk Checker
Answer a few questions about how you use your email address and we'll estimate your exposure risk.
Your answers are processed in your browser and are not sent to our servers.
This is a self-assessment, not an internet or breach lookup. For an actual email exposure check, use the scan below.
This tool provides an educational estimate based on your answers. It does not scan the internet, confirm a data breach, or guarantee that your email is exposed or safe.
Want to see what may actually be exposed?
This checker gives an estimate based on your habits. Scan My Shadow checks your real email address across 1,500+ breach and public data sources — with a plain-language report in minutes.
- Results usually within about 5 minutes
- Clear, plain-English report
- Delivered straight to your inbox
- No login or passwords required
- Scan data deleted after report is generated
What Is the Email Privacy Risk Checker?
Important: this checker estimates your potential exposure from your answers; it does not check whether your actual email address appears online or in a known breach. If you want to check the address itself, use the Email Exposure Check.
This free tool estimates how exposed your email address may be, based on your everyday habits — how widely you reuse it, whether it doubles as a public username, and whether it's still linked to old accounts. You never need to type in your actual email address. It's a self-assessment, not a lookup tool.
The check takes about a minute and gives you a risk score out of 100, along with a breakdown of your biggest contributing habits and practical next steps.
How Is the Score Calculated?
Each of the 10 questions targets a specific exposure dimension — public visibility, reuse across services, old-account connections, and how well you maintain your inbox's exposure over time. Answers are weighted by how much they typically contribute to exposure, and combined into a score between 0 and 100, mapped to five risk levels from Low to Very High. The scoring logic is transparent and deterministic — the same answers always produce the same score.
What Can You Do Next?
Your result includes personalised recommendations based on your specific answers. If you want to go beyond an estimate and see exactly what's out there, Scan My Shadow's Email Exposure Check checks your actual email address across 1,500+ breach and public data sources, with a plain-language report delivered to your inbox in minutes. You can also read our Digital Footprint Checker guide, check your phone number exposure, try our other free privacy tools, read our About page, or get in touch if you have questions.
Frequently Asked Questions
Ready to check the email address itself?
Run an Email Exposure Check → to move from a habit-based estimate to an actual check of your submitted email address.