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Data breaches have become commonplace in our current era of privacy invasions, and having our data exposed on the dark web is a serious possibility. Your information being blasted is scary no matter where it is, but if you’re not someone browsing the dark web, how would you know if your information got leaked? Ideally, companies will alert you if there’s been a breach, but that’s not always the case, especially if the company doesn’t even know it’s been hacked.

If you have any reason to believe that your sensitive data has been leaked, you should know how to find out what it is and how to deal with it.

Finding your data on the dark web

Don’t start surfing the dark web yourself. The last thing you need is to infect your system with malware that’ll expose more of your data to malicious actors.…