Key Capabilities / Features

SpyCloud’s Check Your Exposure tool provides critical capabilities to help individuals and organizations identify and address potential cybersecurity risks:

Comprehensive and Dynamic Breach Database: Information is derived from SpyCloud’s extensive darknet repository – the world’s largest database of stolen credentials and recaptured darknet information. This allows the tool to pull data from hard-to-reach sources, such as criminal forums and other areas of the darknet.

Real-Time Insights: Check Your Exposure is powered by SpyCloud’s constantly updated database, ingesting billions of new assets monthly. This ensures users receive the most up-to-date insights as new breaches occur and threats emerge.

Password Analysis: The tool identifies reused, weak, or otherwise compromised passwords, offering detailed analysis to help users understand the scope of their vulnerabilities and prevent further exploitation.

Actionable Security Recommendations: The tool offers clear and actionable steps to secure compromised accounts and mitigate risk, such as resetting passwords, adopting stronger account information, enabling multi-factor authentication, and improving overall security hygiene.

Enterprise and Personal Use: While individuals can use the tool to check personal data, businesses can monitor domains to protect employee and customer accounts.

Specialized Consumer Risk Module: Check Your Exposure is particularly useful for organizations that deal in very sensitive customer data, such as financial institutions and other consumer-facing businesses. These organizations can use Check Your Exposure’s “Consumer Risk Module” (introduced in July 2024) to obtain a quick and accurate summary of their customers’ darknet exposures. This unique feature enables businesses to proactively address risks associated with consumer credentials, reducing the likelihood of fraud or account takeover.

With its unparalleled data sources, real-time updates, and actionable insights, Check Your Exposure is a powerful and versatile tool for safeguarding individuals and organizations against evolving cyber threats.

How we are different

Check Your Exposure by SpyCloud is a free, industry-leading cybersecurity tool that gives users unmatched visibility into their exposed credentials and personal data, enabling proactive risk mitigation.

Unparalleled Data Coverage: Check Your Exposure leverages SpyCloud’s industry-leading darknet data repository, which includes over 725 billion recaptured assets (and growing) from more than 48,000 data breaches, malware-infected devices, and private criminal forums. This comprehensive approach grants users with an unmatched level of visibility into their exposures, uncovering not just publicly known breaches but also hard-to-access and privately traded stolen data from the likes of malware and successful phishing attacks. Furthermore, SpyCloud’s darknet data repository encompasses over 220 distinct data types, including usernames, email addresses, passwords, stolen authentication cookies, API tokens, personally identifiable information (PII), and financial information. This extensive variety ensures a holistic approach to understanding and mitigating advanced cyber threats.

Real-Time, Continuous Updates: The tool benefits from SpyCloud’s ability to ingest over 25 billion new assets each month and their rich research and analysis of pervasive malware families, ensuring that the information it provides remains current and highly reliable. By offering insights based on the latest stolen data, users receive an accurate and timely understanding of their risk profile, including exposed passwords, weak or reused credentials, and other compromised information.

Actionable Insights to Reduce Risk: Check Your Exposure doesn’t just highlight vulnerabilities—it empowers users with clear, actionable recommendations to secure their accounts and reduce the risk of cyberattacks, including account takeover, ransomware, and fraud. By identifying password reuse rates, stolen cookies, and PII, this free tool enables individuals and businesses to proactively address potential threats and improve their cybersecurity posture with ease.