Online security is important, and your accounts security is determined by how secure your password is.
This is why its important tomake your passwords long and complex; they end up being harder to guess.
Data breaches are pretty regular things now and can affect websites of any size, small or huge.
This is despite their personal data being available for sale on the internet.
In the worst cases, this data can include your password, contact details, or even payment details.
Tip: Sites that offer data breach monitoring only let you search by username.
They never return any of the specific values that were associated with your entry in a data breach.
This is a security decision, so no one can use the service to discover your passwords.
Enter the username you want to check for, then click Check breaches.
Tip: Your account email address will be filled in the username box by default.
key in your usernames in the Data breach report in the Tools tab, then click Check breaches.
Hopefully, your results will show that your usernames have been unaffected by any known data breach.
If Passwords are mentioned, then you should take the opportunity to change your password for that site.
If you reused that password anywhere else, you should also change it there too.
Data breaches can affect anyone.
To help you see if youve been affected by one, Bitwarden offers a data breach report tool.
If you have been affected by a breach, its recommended that you change the affected password.
