Data Leak Checker

About Data Leak Checker

The Data Leak Checker feature looks for your private data on both the internet and dark web (from your credit card numbers to social security info). If your data becomes publicly accessible, the Data Leak Checker alerts you.

If you don't have a subscription for Kaspersky Plus or Premium, limited functionality is available to you: the app only checks your My Kaspersky account for data leaks. You also have to start this scan manually. Full functionality and automatic account scan is available if you have a subscription for Kaspersky Plus or Premium.

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

Kaspersky app checks your 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 account

To check whether your account data may be publicly accessible:

1. Open Kaspersky app.
2. Tap on the Data Leak Checker section of the main screen.
3. When prompted, sign in to My Kaspersky.

   After you sign in to My Kaspersky, the account check will start automatically.

4. If you have previously signed in to My Kaspersky, tap Find data leaks.

   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. The app also displays advice on what to do if your data has been leaked.

   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 data leak is detected.

If you have used the Account Check feature in the Kaspersky Security Cloud app on your device, we'll copy your email list to the Data Leak Checker feature in Kaspersky app on the same device. Make sure your Personal or Family or Kaspersky Plus or Premium subscription has been activated in both the apps for this to happen.