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.
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.