How to secure your personal email address
You are likely to become a victim of spam, ransomware, identity theft and other malicious threats if your email address is visible online for all to see (we refer to this as openly exposed personal email address).
You should search across all search engines, social media sites and
other online platforms to see if your email address is openly exposed.
An easy way of searching most search engines and social media sites is to use the email
search facility available here at sniff.email.
The Sniff.email
search platform will show you how exposed your personal email address is online, for
FREE. Try it here https://sniff.email
You should search across all search engines, social media sites and
other online platforms to see if your email address is openly exposed.
An easy way of searching most search engines and social media sites is to use the email
search facility available here at sniff.email.
The Sniff.email
search platform will show you how exposed your personal email address is online, for
FREE. Try it here https://sniff.email
Sometimes your email address is not visible online, but has been
acquired by cyber criminals or individuals that wish to use your email with
malicious intent. A common way that
cyber criminals acquire email addresses are via data breaches.
A popular
site (which we think provides tremendous value) is ‘Have I Been Pwned?’. This site will show you if your personal email
address has been compromised as part of a data breach. These guys & girls know their stuff and work hard to
help people become aware of data breaches –
at the time of writing this page
(Oct 2021) they had identified circa 11.5 billion pwned/compromised email
accounts.
Don’t worry, despite the name this
isn’t anything to do with online pornography, unless of course your personal data has been breached from such a site!?
Change your password(s). You need to change the password for your email account. If it’s a work email account, then ask your internal IT Team. If, however it’s a personal account you need to take action now. Go back to whoever you setup your email account with. We’ve provided some links below based on your type of email:
If you have your own domain name (the bit after the @sign) then you’ll need to log into the control panel of your hosting provider. If you don’t know this then seek professional IT advice from a trusted source. A hosting provider, is a company that offer domain, email and internet storage (amongst other things), such as IONOS, GoDaddy, Azure, AWS, Hostgator, Deamhost, Bluehost and many many more. If you are really struggling to find help reach out to us hi@sniff.email
The risk of email hacking is on the rise , however there are steps that you can take to protect your personal email.
To report unauthorised access, scam, spam, identity theft or any malicious digital attack you should contact your local police station. Alternatively, you can report spam, scams, suspicious email or any digital threats to:
The more we Globally work together to reduce these threats, the better off we’ll all be! The first step should be to use the sniff.email search engine to see if your email address is exposed online. You can do that here https://sniff.email