Not a week goes by without new databases of user accounts being revealed on the net by unscrupulous hackers. The latest example, which has particularly made an impression, is the hacking of the database of users of the extramarital dating site Ashley Madison.
Indeed, at the end of July, nearly 40 million unfaithful Internet users saw their data broadcast on the web by a group of hackers who attacked the dating site... needless to say, this could create problems in the home!
If we can always try to protect ourselves in the best possible way with Passwords in length, antiviruses and other anti-malwares, we are however not safe from malicious people who will enter the databases of services that you use on the web and who will take malicious pleasure in distributing all your data on the Internet... Imagine for example the hacking of Facebook!
Fight piracy with Indexeus
Small consolation, if it is impossible to fight against these pirates at your humble level, you can still check that your personal information is not lying around in the wild using a web tool called Indexeus.
Indeed, Indexeus is a search engine free which indexes all the databases that have been made available to the public on the Internet by hackers. You will therefore be able to search if information about you has been leaked on the web using an email address, a nickname, an IP address, a name or an address.
Phew! No results for Byothe!
For the founder of Indexeus, the Portuguese Jason Relinquo,
Indexeus' goal is not to provide private information about anyone, but to protect them by making them aware. Therefore, we are not responsible for any misuse or malicious use of our content and services.
However, even if the tool is intended to be reassuring, it still constitutes a powerful search engine for private information.
If you ever find results that concern you, the Indexeus team invites you to contact by email to see with you where the information comes from and how to delete it. When the site was launched a year ago, you had to make a $1 donation to be able to disappear from the site's database, now it seems that the service is free following the European directives on the right to be forgotten.
Article updated on January 23, 2025 by Byothe
