Data Leak Checker

About Data Leak Checker

What is this?

The Data Leak Checker feature checks your accounts on the web and alerts you when information about you becomes publicly accessible.

If you don't have a subscription for Kaspersky Plus or Premium, limited functionality is available: the app only checks your My Kaspersky account for data leaks. Full functionality is available if you have a subscription for Kaspersky Plus or Premium.

Why should I worry about my data?

Cybercriminals may gain access to various web resource databases and steal user account data. Using these feature, you can learn whether your account data has been stolen and perform recommended actions to protect your data.

How the feature works?

You can check your account manually or set up automatic account checks. Kaspersky app checks the specified account and if the check reveals that your data may be publicly accessible, the app will notify you about it and display a list of sites from which a data leak could have occurred, the date of possible leak, and the category of data that may be publicly accessible.

Kaspersky app lets you check for possible leaks of not only your own data, but also data from other user accounts belonging to your friends and family, for example.

If you have a subscription for Kaspersky Plus or Premium, you can set up automatic checks for up to 50 accounts in addition to your own My Kaspersky account.

When checking user accounts, Kaspersky does not retrieve data as plain text. It uses the data only to perform the specified check and does not store it. On detecting a leak, Kaspersky app does not gain access to the user data itself. It only provides information about categories of data that may be publicly accessible.

Checking your accounts

To check whether your account data may be publicly accessible:

1. Open the Kaspersky app.
2. Open Data Leak Checker section.

   The Check an Account screen opens.

3. In the search field, enter your email address.
4. Tap Search.

   If your account data is possibly leaked, the app displays a list of websites from which a data leak could have occurred, the date of possible leakage, and the category of data that may be compromised.

   To learn more about the possible data leak and view Kaspersky recommendations, tap the website.

5. The app saves each checked account to a list of accounts that are checked automatically every day.

   You will get a notification if a possible account data leak will be detected.