Guides
Practical, source-backed guides to help you find the accounts linked to your email, respond to data breaches, secure your inbox, and keep your personal details up to date. Written for an Australian audience and grounded in official guidance.
What to do if your email is in a data breach
A step-by-step plan for when your email turns up in a data breach: check your exposure, secure your accounts and protect your identity in Australia.
Best digital footprint management tools in Australia
A sourced comparison of the tools Australians use to manage their digital footprint: breach checkers, password managers, broker removal and footprint managers.
How to find accounts linked to your email
Find the accounts associated with your email and where it is used. Five free methods: inbox search, saved passwords, connected apps, breach checks, inventory.
Where is my email address being used?
Five things put your address in strangers' inboxes and they look identical. How to tell them apart, what each signal means, and the Australian rules.
Have I Been Pwned alternatives
Six breach-check tools compared, free and paid, and which gap each fills once Have I Been Pwned has told you that you are exposed.
7 sites like Have I Been Pwned
Seven breach-search sites compared on what you can actually search by, what each corpus contains, and whether the free tier shows you anything useful.
Digital footprint check
Find the accounts tied to your email, see your breach exposure, and decide what to close, secure or update. Includes a manual method.
Data breach check
How to check whether your data was leaked, which breach-check tools to run and why their results differ, and what to do about the accounts a check turns up.
Incogni vs DeleteMe vs Optery: the Australian take
Incogni, DeleteMe and Optery compared for Australians: what each covers, what it costs, and why US broker removal rarely matches Australian exposure.
MyFitnessPal data breach: what happened, 2018 to 2026
Three incidents get reported as one MyFitnessPal breach. The 2018 hack, Under Armour 2025 and the 2026 Cal AI claim, untangled.
Find apps and accounts linked to your phone number
Six free ways to find the apps and accounts linked to your phone number on Android or iPhone, see what is exposed, and guard against SIM-swap fraud.
Have I Been Pwned: is it safe, and what to do next
How Have I Been Pwned works, whether it is safe to use, what 'pwned' actually means, and the steps to take after it tells you your email appears in a breach.
Is Have I Been Pwned safe?
Yes. Who runs Have I Been Pwned, what it keeps when you search your email or password, and the one thing a clean result cannot tell you.
How to delete old accounts
Find the accounts you have forgotten, work out which to close first, and use your Australian deletion rights when a service makes it difficult.
Remove your personal info from the internet (Australia)
What Google search removals can and cannot do, how to approach data brokers and people-search sites, and closing the old accounts still holding your details.
Digital footprint checklist
Audit your digital footprint with a checklist covering accounts, passwords, breach exposure, recovery details, connected apps and old services you forgot.
Password manager vs breach monitor vs digital footprint manager
Understand the difference between password managers, breach monitors, data-broker removal services, and digital footprint managers, and when to use each.
How to secure your email after a data breach
Secure your email after a breach: change your passphrase, turn on MFA, check recovery details, and review forwarding rules and connected apps.
What personal data do companies store about me?
What companies typically store about you, from contact details to identity documents and location data, plus your right to access and correct it in Australia.
Moving house address change checklist (Australia)
An Australian moving-house checklist for updating your address with myGov, Medicare, the ATO, banks, utilities, telcos and insurers, in priority order.