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Guides to exposure, breaches and removal

Four questions come up more than any others once someone finds their details in a breach record: how to get off the people-search sites, what the notification letter actually means, whether a leaked phone number is a real problem, and how to freeze a credit file. Each guide answers one of them, in the order we would do it.

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How to remove your data from people-search sites

A practical removal guide for the largest people-search sites, what a removal actually changes, and how to escalate when a site ignores you.

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What a breach notification actually means

How to read a breach notification letter, verify it is genuine, and turn the vague parts into a concrete checklist based on what was exposed.

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How to check if your phone number leaked

What a phone number exposure check really shows, why the number is a high value identifier, and how to shut down the SIM swap and port-out risks behind it.

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How to freeze your credit after a data breach

Freezes, fraud alerts, locks and monitoring explained, the free federal rights behind them, and the bureaus most people forget to freeze.

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See which records hold your identifiers

One free lookup returns the records we can source for an email address, username or phone number, each labelled with the source it came from.

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