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DataBreach.com Emerges as Alternative to HaveIBeenPwned

PCMag: “Have I Been Pwned has long been 

one of the most useful ways to learn if your 

personal information was exposed in a hack. 

But a new site offers its own powerful tool to 

help you check if your data has been 

leaked to cybercriminals. DataBreach.com 

is the work of a New Jersey company 

called Atlas Privacy, which helps 

consumers remove their personal 

information from data brokers and people 

search websites. 

On Wednesday, the company told us 

it had launched DataBreach.com as an alternative 

to Have I Been Pwned, which is mainly searchable via the 

user’s email address. DataBreach.com is designed to 

do that and more. In addition to your email address, 

the site features an advanced search function to see 

whether your full name, physical address, phone number, 

Social Security number, IP address, or username are in 

Atlas Privacy’s extensive library of recorded breaches. 

More categories will also be added over time. 

Atlas Privacy has been offering its paid services 

to customers, such as police officers and celebrities,

to protect bad actors from learning their 

addresses or phone numbers. In doing so,

 the company has also amassed over 17.5 billion 

records from the numerous stolen databases 

circulating on the internet, including in 

cybercriminal forums. As a public service, 

Atlas is now using its growing repository of 

stolen records to create a breach notification site,

 free of charge. DataBreach.com builds off 

Atlas’s effort in August to host a site notifying 

users whether their Social Security number and 

other personal information were leaked in the 

National Public Data hack. Importantly, Atlas 

designed DataBreach.com to prevent it from 

storing or collecting any sensitive user 

information typed into the site. Instead, 

the site will fetch a hash from Atlas’ servers, 

or a fingerprint of the user’s personal information 

— whether it be an email address, name, or SSN 

— and compare it to whatever the user is 

searching for. “The comparison will be done locally,” 

meaning it’ll occur on the user’s PC or phone, rather 

than Atlas’s internet server, de Saint Meloir said.”