Caitlin Sarian shows how to check if your data was in a breach using a free website. She walks through finding the Duolingo breach from August 2023, which exposed 2.6 million records including emails, names, and languages spoken.
So how do you know if your data's been breached from the recent Duolingo breach or any other breaches that have happened in the last year, which there have been A lot. Hi, I'm Caitlin. I'm a cybersecurity and data protection expert and I want to help you see if you've been breached. Let's go. The easiest way to tell if your personal information has been involved in a data breach is to go to this website. Once there, you enter your email address and press pwn. Now, just for reference, if you're trying to see if it was breached in the Duolingo breach, you need to use the email that you used for Duolingo. So once I enter my email, it says, oh no, I've been pwned in 18 data breaches. If I scroll down, I hit Duolingo, which was in August of 2023 with 2.6 million records. And the compromised data was email addresses, names, spoken languages. Before we continue, be sure to follow along for more cyber security tips and tricks and be sure to share this with a friend. Honestly, I look at this website all the time to see if it's been involved in any other one and it's an excellent resource to have. Don't worry, this website is safe. This was an ex Microsoft director and widely used in the industry. So don't think this is some random website that you're entering your credentials on. All you're entering is your email address that's associated with.
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