6 best Have I Been Pwned alternatives

Have I Been Pwned gives you a free browser search of your email address against its breach corpus, a notification service for future breaches, a directory of the sites it has indexed, and Pwned Passwords for checking whether a specific password has appeared in a breach. Verified in July 2026, that corpus covered 1,019 pwned websites and 17,708,582,733 pwned accounts, or more than 17.7 billion.

Its paid tiers are often described as business-only. That is not accurate. Have I Been Pwned describes its entry-level Core tier as designed for simple, direct email lookups, and at US$4.39 a month (US$52.68 a year) it is perfectly usable by an individual. The Pro and High RPM tiers above it are the ones pitched at enterprises and managed service providers.

What it does not do is show you which accounts you actually hold, help you close or update them, accept a phone number, or walk you through recovery. That is by design. If you want the background on the service itself, what “pwned” means and whether it is safe to search your address there, read our Have I Been Pwned guide. This page is strictly about what else exists and what to layer on top.

In The Event Of starts from the opposite end to a breach database. Instead of asking which breaches contain your address, it connects a supported inbox (Gmail or Outlook) and surfaces the accounts, services and subscriptions tied to it, connecting with 100+ services. You get a footprint map, breach exposure against those accounts, and guided checklists that tell you what to do with each one.

That makes it the natural step after a Have I Been Pwned result. Have I Been Pwned tells you a 2021 breach included your address. In The Event Of shows you the account itself, plus the dormant accounts you had forgotten about that probably share the same password. Our guide to finding accounts linked to your email walks through the manual version of the same process.

Pricing (verified July 2026): there are two consumer tiers. Free is A$0 and includes discovering linked accounts via supported inbox scanning, a footprint map, guided checklists for life and admin changes, progress tracking, baseline breach checks and essential alerts. Protection is A$10 a month or A$99 a year, with a 14-day free trial on the monthly plan, and adds monitoring for multiple email addresses, deeper breach detail with recommended next steps, priority alerts, richer remediation guidance and continuous monitoring.

On security: sensitive values such as your connected-inbox OAuth tokens are encrypted with AES-256-GCM at the application level, on top of encryption at rest.

Limitations: inbox connection is the discovery mechanism, so you need a Gmail or Outlook account to get the full benefit, and coverage is strongest for Australian services.

Mozilla Monitor, formerly Firefox Monitor, is the closest like-for-like alternative. Enter an email address, get a free breach scan, and turn on continuous monitoring so you are alerted when a new breach appears. Mozilla states that its data breach monitoring protection is always free, and reports that the service has been used by 10 million people across 237 countries since 2018.

Where it edges ahead of Have I Been Pwned for everyday users is presentation: each breach comes with plain-English guidance on what to do next rather than a bare list. A paid Monitor Plus tier with United States data-broker removal also exists, though no price was published on the page we checked.

Limitations: email-only checks, guidance that is generic rather than tied to your actual accounts, and data-broker removal that is not useful outside the United States. Australians looking at removal services should read our Incogni vs DeleteMe comparison instead.

The Cybernews Personal Data Leak Checker is a free lookup backed, as verified in July 2026, by 18,611,353,922 breached accounts (more than 18.6 billion) across 36,030 breached websites. Unlike Have I Been Pwned, it accepts a phone number in international format as well as an email address. Cybernews states that it does not collect or store the email addresses searched, and that lookups run against a 500 GB database of leaked hashed emails.

Because no breach corpus is complete, a second check here after Have I Been Pwned occasionally surfaces something the first one missed, and the reverse is equally true. If your concern is a number rather than an inbox, pair it with our guide on finding accounts linked to your phone number.

Limitations: it is a check, not a monitor. There are no alerts and no remediation, and Cybernews is a commercial review site, so expect adjacent product recommendations alongside your result.

DeHashed is a searchable breach-data engine aimed at security professionals. Beyond email addresses it searches usernames, IP addresses and domains, sends monitoring notifications by text message, email or webhook, and offers API access for automation.

For a typical consumer it is overkill. Results are raw breach records and interpreting them is entirely on you. For a sysadmin, a researcher, or anyone tracing how far a set of identifiers has spread, it is the deepest self-serve option on this list.

Pricing: usage-based, on a credit model rather than a flat consumer subscription, so what you pay depends on how much you search.

Limitations: technical interface, raw data rather than guidance, and consumer remediation is simply not what it is for.

If you already use a password manager you may already own an alternative. 1Password's Watchtower, Bitwarden's exposed-password reports and Proton Pass's monitoring all flag stored credentials that have appeared in breaches, several of them using Have I Been Pwned's own Pwned Passwords data underneath.

The advantage over checking Have I Been Pwned directly is specificity: these tools can see your actual saved logins, so they can tell you exactly which ones to change and generate the replacement on the spot.

Limitations: they only cover what is saved in the manager. Accounts you created before you adopted it, and never got around to importing, stay invisible. Our comparison of a password manager vs breach monitor vs digital footprint manager sets out exactly which layer covers which risk.

Paid suites such as Aura and Norton 360 with LifeLock bundle dark-web monitoring with credit-file monitoring, identity-theft insurance and human restoration support. They watch a broader set of identifiers than Have I Been Pwned, including government IDs and financial accounts, and assign a person to help if your identity is actually stolen.

They are the heavyweight option: subscription-priced, largely United States-centric for the credit features, and more than most people need for breach awareness. They are the right call if you have already suffered identity theft rather than a password leak.

Limitations: cost, the United States focus on credit monitoring, and the fact that you are buying monitoring and insurance rather than account cleanup.

Google retired the Dark Web Report in early 2026. As TechCrunch reported in December 2025, dark web scanning stopped on 16 January 2026 and the feature was discontinued on 16 February 2026, taking stored results with it.

Google's stated reason is the most useful thing about the shutdown, because it describes the exact problem this whole page is about. Google said the tool “didn't provide helpful next steps”, and that “We're making this change to instead focus on tools that give you more clear, actionable steps to protect your information online.” People could see that something had leaked and change a password, without any direction on what actually needed changing.

• “I just found out I am in a breach, now what?” Find every affected account and work through prioritised fixes. Start with what to do if your email is in a data breach and how to secure your email afterwards.
• “I want free ongoing alerts, with more guidance.” Mozilla Monitor.
• “I want to double-check, including my phone number.” Cybernews Personal Data Leak Checker.
• “I want to investigate everything tied to me.” DeHashed.
• “I mainly care about passwords.”Your password manager's monitor, plus Pwned Passwords.
• “I am worried about identity theft, not just accounts.” An identity protection suite.

The honest bottom line: keep using Have I Been Pwned. It is free, trustworthy and the best-known breach database available. The real question is what you layer on top, because a notification is only worth anything if you act on it. Start with a data breach check, then run a digital footprint check to see what is actually exposed, and see our breach guides for what to do after specific incidents.

In The Event Of exists for the step that breach checkers hand back to you. You connect a supported inbox (Gmail or Outlook) so it can scan for account-related metadata, sender addresses, subject lines and timestamps rather than the body of your emails, or you add services manually. It organises what it finds into a digital footprint, highlights breach exposure across those accounts, and gives you guided steps for each one, so a result from Have I Been Pwned becomes a list of accounts to close, rotate or update rather than a number.

The Free tier at A$0 covers discovery, the footprint map, guided checklists, progress tracking and baseline breach checks. Protection, at A$10 a month or A$99 a year with a 14-day free trial on monthly, adds multiple monitored email addresses, deeper breach detail with recommended next steps, priority alerts and continuous monitoring. If your next move is clearing out what you no longer use, our guides on deleting old accounts and the digital footprint checklist take it from there. You stay in control of every change.