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 clear, step-by-step plan for what to do when your email address 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 fair, sourced comparison of the tools that help Australians manage their digital footprint: breach checkers, password managers, data-broker removal services, and digital footprint managers, and who each is best for.
How to find accounts linked to your email
Practical ways to find the accounts connected to your email address: inbox searches, saved passwords, Google/Apple/Microsoft sign-in checks, breach checks, and building an account inventory.
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.
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 accounts linked to your phone number
Audit which accounts use your mobile number, see what is publicly exposed, guard against SIM-swap fraud, and unlink safely before changing numbers.
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.
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 this checklist covering accounts, personal data, passwords, breach exposure, recovery details, connected apps, and old services that may still hold your information.
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 account after a breach with this checklist: change your passphrase, turn on MFA, check recovery details, review forwarding rules and connected apps, and monitor recent activity.
What personal data do companies store about me?
From contact details to identity documents and location data, here is what companies typically store about you, your right to access and correct it in Australia, and what to update when your details change.
Moving house address change checklist (Australia)
An Australian moving-house checklist for updating your address with myGov, Medicare, the ATO, the electoral roll, banks, utilities, telcos, insurers, and subscriptions, in priority order.